Quote Originally Posted by Velnora View Post
Do you think they had all the servers primed and ready to go several years in advance?
They certainly had them secured and in use as development and infrastructure hardware, yes. That's generally what you do if you are serious about a major MMO launch. Getting those things up and running as a harmonious whole is an extremely non-trivial undertaking.

Maybe they could see if Blizzard is willing to sell any of their server racks, since they aren't seeing as much use from them these days.