Misleading/contradictory... hardly.

I am not referring to inactive accounts who's players are not even there to notice what's going on with their "limbo accounts". They won't even know or care that they are on a new server 4 months from now when they try to reactivate.

I am simply saying that for someone like my friend (a returning player from the failed release) who paid his money upfront to reactivate his account in order to play and confront this notice posted today, known by SE beforehand "We deeply apologize for the belated announcement and for any inconvenience this may cause." is bad business.

Take the game down a few days if needed to avoid this sort of thing, or better yet disable the activation services until all is sorted out (they do this on a regular basis during maintenance and such).