As someone who works in IT, I can wholeheartedly say that I do understand how servers and capacity works.

I can also say that any competent IT Department would look at their Peak Concurrent User Numbers during the Phase 4 beta was, and when the problems started, and gear up their server clusters for that many people at a very bare minimum, and in my opinion, at least give themselves 25% of extra capacity for overhead.

While I don't think 1 week between Open Beta/Stress Test, and Early Access Launch is enough time, they certainly should have been installing more hardware into the data centers to increase the capacity to handle the load.

The simple fact that the servers are being limited to stabilize the platform means they definitely do not have enough hardware to handle it, and the software portion is poorly optimized to handle the load as well.

They need to pick up the football and try again... and here we are, less than 48 hours from Official Launch, While I really love the game they crafted, and want it to succeed, the Hardware side of things seems to be managed by a horribly inept team... they need to get some of the JP datacenter guys to help with this... right now.