This launch is a mess.

[Lauront]

A shame the visit another world feature is effectively worthless as a work-around as it won't even work... assuming you could even find a quieter server... but it can't even go that far.

That's what they said, yes, though they recognised in advance that the population of the North American servers would grow over time and took steps to future proof those servers. The same thing should have done for the European datacentre in order to account for sudden population bursts.

I suspect it comes down to what they were willing to spend more than anything else.

And it is a shame, because so far, it's very good when you can log in.