Mother lovin' bump. This is inexcusable as the game has made an official launch and is embarrassing itself all over again. The one repeat situation you absolutely did not want to have is sitting right there in front of you and you had all the prep time to ensure it wouldn't.

All you have to do is promise players that, whatever server they have to use for now, they will be able to transfer their characters out to their desired server destination once you set up proper infrastructure where it is so badly needed.