Quote Originally Posted by CazzT View Post
Having experience countless 2002 errors since 1AM of Dec 3rd, I can tell you with absolute certainty and confidence that it does not hold your place in queue 99% of the time. It doesn't matter if you log back in within 3 minutes or 15 seconds, it does not hold your place. And that 1% of the time it seems like it has? That's because all the other 17k people that led to the 2002 error also got dumped and you just so happened to jump back in at the right moment to be within a few places of where you were before.

This has been pointed out by so many people at this point that it baffles me that people actually believe this is working.
It may be dependent on the cause of the crash.

On Friday the second time I got booted to the desktop from a 2002 error, I decided to try to log in to a character on another server to see if that queue was shorter. It wasn't. I went back to the character I was initially trying on and was back at about the place I got booted from. Given the time it took to do all that, if my place had not been reserved, I would have expected to be higher in queue. As I had crashed to desktop, I wasn't expecting the game to hold my place in line which is why I attempted to log into a second character to see if I could get in.