Okay, curiosity has me now. 1. Did the friends play during beta? in which case you lose for being the last guy to the party. or 2. Were you just the last guy to the party and everyone else was there on time? it's not a scam that you were too slow to make a character on a given server. A server isn't an infinite space that just goes on and on and on. Hate to break it to ya, but there is a limit to how many people can be on a given server (Not even considering the amount of concurrent connections to said server). So, you have two options at the end. 1. Convince all of them to go to an open server and play together there. 2. don't play, 15 of your friends won't miss you in the long run, and we have one less idiot we have to put up with. /endrant