Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

[Miles064]

Yes, indeed, they should be able to see how many copies sold or reserved, but answer me this
How are they going to find out the age group, time zone of each copy sold?
How are they going to tell from sale record (right now mostly are done digital) or preorder on what type of customers bought your game?
How are they going to know each individual's login time?
Especially we are talking about fresh subscription?
If you can do that yourself, you definitely need to submit a resume to any large company.
The marketing team would love you

Why would they need to do any of that if it was ment to be a rough guess in the first place? All they need is current sub counts and copies sold to just warn people they might run into issues. 500k cap 600k subs means yeah the high pop server might have queues but you should be fine based on players not all playing at once. 500k cap and 800k subs? Ok just a heads up queues are 100% going to be happening and depending on you server it might be pretty long. 500k cap and 1mil subs? You will have a queue and the servers may have some issues. You were warned.

They could even use this to say "hey things seemed to have dropped off in this datacenter" if people want to make alts/transfer over or come back after waiting a bit as well.

Edit: They don't even need to say the sub number though it would be nice. Would be nice if every mmo did something like this at least.