Agree, it might happen but i find it hard to believe that people have been spamming for 10 hours. 1-2 hours maybe, but 10 hours?

Like the OP i have been able to get in after several tries.

As we speak i got in after many tries, and that was only 10 mins, but there are steps i take before hand. First the start button didn't come up, so i reset the client. Then the character screen didn't load up at the normally speed, so i kept resetting till it did. Then Eu/na servers didn't come up, so i reset till it did. once all those problems where sorted i started trying to load the game. First try i got the error, but i didn't reset the client i just went from the main screen, tried again, got put in a que, then Boom i was in.

It could be i'm lucky, but that method always helps for me so i would say try it and see