I would think that Bioware doesn't want to promise something it may not be able to deliver, for fear of legal retribution. Plus the large gap isn't too surprising, the player pop from today will have really settled for tomorrow and even though players aren't getting in, the login server is surely getting battered, more than ever before. If that + the game servers cracked under pressure, this would have been a worse mess with even bigger flames incoming on the forums. All in all, I'd say they'd roll people in more and more aggressively as they can. I mean, I don't know about you all, but I would have been playing all those 18 hours myself. Others would burn out and take the rest of it at a slower pace.