I'd appreciate some honesty, let us see a queue please.
The 1017 is getting out of hand. If you are going to institute a login cap, please also implement a queue and let us see where we are. Let us see the number drops and when it drops to zero, let us login.
It is at least honest, not hiding anything, or force us to randomly spam click our characters for 6 hours (that's how long I've been randomly clicking) just to get the dialog of disappointment over and over again.
We are MMO players. You should know us by now. Just like the game world, things has to make sense. They have to be consistent. We might not know the rules behind the system but there has to be an honesty to it so that we can have faith. Right now, we are making things up and getting frustrated with no resolution in sight. Not only that, there is no getting around the issue.
Problem severity assessment 101: Is it just one user not able to use the service or many or all? Many. Can these users work around the issue? No. (Try again later is not a work around.)
I can accept a queue while you try to solve your technical problems. But let it be an honest queue.