Quote Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk View Post
It should be pointed out that a big part of Raubahn Extreme was also caused by a DDOS attack on the instance servers, which is rather outside of SE's ability to control.
While true, the way they changed it up to dungeon before solo instance, and a split quest where you go can here or there, helped as well since there was a larger population of players at the time of launch.