Can you all just hold off on the excitement until I get home from work? Playing a sniper won't be the same! I might enjoy it!

WoW server average is ~1500 as well. Concurrent vs subscriptions seems to be the underlying reason for most of the posts. Don't quote me on this but I thought I had read BioWare was going to be removing multiple instance areas as the game went on the separate instances were to prevent stress. 1500 people on a server is a lot of process for almost any server beyond some of the worlds beefiest.

As a person who designs and implements virtual infrastructures I believe they are doing a fine job. Patches and fixes happen, and frequently to anything of this nature.

WoW managed to survive when most of the popular PvP servers were Horde almost 2:1 to Alliance.