I got a "we are starting Emergency Maintenance" alert at 8:31p, and logged since I was just emerging from an instance and didn't want to be scragged.
NA servers are now unlisted--the couple of JP worlds I tried to hit are full.

Yoshi put out another letter recently--300,000 simultaneous connections on a farm that basically underestimated the interest. It sounds like they truly thought their rep had been slagged by 1.0 and would have to grow gradually. And then the onslaught began.....