Quote Originally Posted by Doozer View Post
You're getting really mad when it not only doesn't affect you, but is easily remedied. The servers aren't full, they're just under strain right now from increased traffic. And if new people want to play so bad, they can make their characters at non-peak times. Wake up early before work or school, load in the saved character appearance data, pick a server, start it, then just shut the game off. It'll skip the opening cutscene and you'll be able to start playing for real later.
Here to agree with OP that this is absolutely and completely ridiculous. You should not have to wait until "non-peak" times to make a character, ever. This is the only MMO I've played in more than a decade where this has ever been a problem I've experienced.

Frankly it's baffling that anyone would defend this being how things work here.