It's 12:30 on a Wednesday afternoon and I've got an hour wait to log in, while I look at the screen and see 15 servers with "LIGHT" next to them.
It seems to me that someone along the line made a big mistake. There is an argument for BW that they don't want people to be on servers that in a short while will be near empty of players. I can understand that, to an extent. From what I'm seeing, they put all the people that pre-ordered and were in guilds on a select few servers. Did they think that people that who pre-ordered, meaning PAID FOR A PRODUCT THAT THEY DIDN'T WHEN THEY'D GET TO USE IT, are MMO junkies, claw and fight to get beta access, won't keep playing when the game is live? That these people will only play for an hour then log off so others will be able to get online to play? Come on.
1.I've seen suggestions to offer server transfers for guilds, sounds like a good idea. At this stage does it really matter what server you're on?
2.If the population cap is set really low, as I've read above, jack it up! I'm with other posters. I'm on Balmorra and it show 62 people there! I can't find people for groups either.
With such a massive variant from several servers full and many hour wait times to servers that are empty, with almost nothing in between, indicates a mistake was made when early access was granted to pre-order customers.