Quote Originally Posted by FrogDog View Post
Hence, the topic.

As far as being overpopulated, it's only really an issue during launch windows. The population stabilizes, the queues go away, but the server is still busy. Balmung's activity really isn't any different than the amount of people you'd see running around in GW2 at any given time either.
GW2 uses Megaservers so population is never a problem. Here however servers are contained in the open world, only instances allow cross world interactions.