Quote Originally Posted by Rubiss View Post
They clearly have the ability to already allocate instances. The expected server strain should have been anticipated. Getting into the EA period required a preorder. It isn't like people just randomly bought the game and logged in. They had figures and they had time too. You mean to imply they didn't believe the people who preordered wouldn't play the game?

They could have even just made the instance battle skippable, mark the quest as cleared upon viewing the cutscenes. Plenty of options. You're going about beta testing, but this certainly doesn't feel like it was beta tested in any real regard.
Since the particular problem is affecting every world equally and the DF, it's pretty obvious that it is cross realm, so nothing to fix there. The shear number of people repeatedly clicking to get in an instance is most likely acting like a DDoS attack not allowing the machine to respond properly. Do you know what MMOs do to fix DDoS attacks? They apologize and wait for them to stop.