Why Are We Still Experiencing Login Queues?

[Kaurhz]

I will respond with what has already been said as I have nothing to add

If the impression from that is "OMG the game must be so full and popular" - Then I would argue those people are lost.

They aren't really faked, the logins are arguably just done in a buffer so that simultaneous login requests cannot effectively DDoS other players in the queue, or from the world itself. They would be entirely separate, in this regard it's just a misleading message to say the world is full. But then arguably most people would conflate the message anyway, in that most people would see login server queue as being synonymous with "The world must be full"

Edit: It's hardly done with an intent to 'fake' numbers or to give some mystical weight to the worlds/game being more popular than it is. From an infrastructure/networking PoV, there are pretty clear reasons why such a system is and would be in place.