People have started doing searches at any given time for total populations, and they seem to be averaging at 300 people online. I'm sure they go up to 500-600 at peak times, but this seems worse than expected, no?

If the servers triple at peak times, that's about 17,000 players total across the 19 servers. This is also straight up after a patch where the population is typically at it's highest. I could of sworn it was busier than that...