While I could see this for crafting however for gathering not so much mainly because gathering you are running around in the overworld collecting nodes.

Another thing what would this due to their server loads? If I remember right the worlds are capped at 7500 per server can be on the server at any given point in time. Maybe once they get their data centers going or we loose all the peps that are unwilling to pay a sub.

Just my thoughts on that.