I am struggling to see why people are defending SE over the fact that new players are unable to create characters unless they wake up/stay up until 2 in the frickin' morning. Not everybody has the luxury of no-lifing for a chance to create a character on any server, much less specific ones.

"Oh but it's a new expansion it should be expected!" When the hell do you think is a better time for them to make their game available to new players?