Serioously, did no one learn their lesson the first time Ive been playing ff for at least ten years, ffxi before ffxiv and ffvii-ix before that . While the issues with xi may not apply to this login issue scenario the same problems have plagued ffxiv . This goes all the way back to the beta of xiv, login issues crashing and all the load issues are supposed to be worked out in the BETA period guys. I've experienced these issure with xiv 1.0 beta and now on xiv ARR (problem here is you should have remembered back to the 1.0 launch). DID you not expect so many people to play? maybe add a variable for unaccounted possible players. Watch the presale numbers; watch the information that you have access to and add at least 10-15% capacity to the servers hell double the servers (at least then you can close unpopulated servers without upsetting people).