Thanks for the input. I'm going to keep checking back in repeatedly (and especially in the 1 am - 6 am hours as much as I hate to lose sleep over a game), but it's kind of annoying that it's locking down the PS3. Unless the servers that all of us specifically want to get on become available, I don't think it's going to improve much until next week when they implement an AFK kick timer.

I guess what's particularly insulting about it is when I made a character on a server that I didn't want to play on (and consequently didn't stay on it long as I didn't want to prevent someone who was actually invested in the server from getting on), I got spammed by an RMT / gil-seller within 20 seconds of landing on the server, and frequently after that. So, yeah, there are these jerks taking up server spots making things worse.