It's a dumb system. If they want to stress test it, that's what open beta stress tests are for. The longer the stagger-process goes on, the worse the launch becomes, the sooner everyone is able to play it the better.
You're about to be let down very much. I'd like to believe your'e right but I'd just be setting myself up for massive disappointment having activated my code on the 7th of december.
Ahh, at least I will get Monday then cause I preordered on the 7th of December. Maybe Sunday if I'm lucky. I was hoping for Friday at the latest but I suppose that's being unrealistically hopeful now =o
So why exactly didn't they just have an even bigger staggered-open beta this week, leading up to the 20th where they wipe all the beta characters and let everyone in at once on the 20th (or however long it will take them to stagger all the characters).
This just seems like a really poor way of doing it, I hope they are learning that at least.