I understand where they come from, but they can't control what players do in any case. If they shut down char creation on a server, you will see a lot "*$&$* WHY CAN'T I PLAY WITH MY FRIENDS!!!!!1" threads. Therefore, I really doubt they will do that, maybe at most they'll do what WoW did and give free realm transfer. Another thing is that they already did a lot of realm spreading with the guild launch thing. Since a lot players are in a guild, that would give a pretty good spread among servers.

So why can't they add them now? It's not like BW doesn't know the amount of people expecting EGA on the 13th. Please don't tell me you think they did what did just to uphold their principle of "up to 5 days"

THERE WILL BE 2 MILLION PLAYERS PLAYING ON THE 20TH REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY DO NOW! I hope I made that clear. Despite staggering waves, there will STILL be the same amount of people playing on a peak day, that isn't going to reduce because of EGA.

It isn't about a 7 day instead of 5 day EGA, or whining, or raging. It is simply the fact that Customer Service had been terrible. I've been reading the forum for about 2 hours now, and I have yet to see any Mod post about what the hell is happening. I don't understand why they can't do what they plan to do tomorrow tonight, whether it is sending out more waves, increase serve population limit, or adding new servers. I mean, they know how many EGA codes have been redeemed, and they know there will be a lot more people joining on the 20th, so why didn't they create enough servers in the first place? EA/BW, please learn from Riot Gaming, when League of Legend was released, there was a lot of technical problems, and they had the largest problem with restarting servers. Even to the point of where they restarted the server everyday for a whole week because of their limited server space. It was frustrating, but CS and tech support were VERY helpful and communicative about what is going on and updating downtimes. Where here we have no idea what is going on. Right now, all we know is that only 100k out of 1 million players were allowed to play, and the staff went home to sleep, while CS is not responding to any posts in the forum. Also, don't forget the fact that a very large amount of your PAID customers are very pissed off at the lack of communication. Please, for the sake of this game, talk to us.

I'd say people who are getting to 50 in one day due to a WZ bug that existed in Beta can be considered "huge bug". I guess good news is that there's no serious raiding guilds in the game yet, so Paragon won't cry themselves to sleep bc they got out-leveled.

Isn't that what stress testing in beta was for? From what I read, it hit over 2 million on thanksgiving weekend, and to my knowledge, there weren't too much trouble besides long queue. The point is they CAN'T treat this like beta and want to be able to get away with it. We PAID for this commitment, and they have to treat it as such. As to you all say "they don't have to give us EGA", my argument is that they WANTED to predict a number at launch, to ensure the game isn't a complete failure, so they offered incentives for it, and we baited, so they need to respect us and do a much better job than they are doing.

But that's just it, you can't control the population on a server, even if you spread it out now. I played on Stormreaver for 5 years, and it was one of the original servers (World's first lvl 60, pretty cool), and now it's just a medium-high server. If they want to control population spread, the easiest way, but far, is to make sure the faction spread is even. Reason Illidan and Mal'Ganis are so crowded is because the fact they are so one sided that they can bully Alliance all they want w/out fear of retaliation on a PvP server, that's just not fair.

I don't know about you, but i really don't want every server to be like Mal'Ganis or Illidan.

I find it very funny that EA, the 2nd largest gaming company in the world, worries about not able to handle a unified EGA launch... EA has more money to spend than us normal people would even know what to do with. Since EA is not going to release any earth-shattering game any time soon, you would think they will focus more on this game.