The fact that they left it all up to rng shows they didnt learn any of these lessons as they say. Terrible design through and through.

Lag wasnt terrible but when in the world did a 5 hour queue time become very little? Liars indeed

Waste of resources, most people would simply say they could play whether they could or not.

Get to read the maddening amount of crying and whining on the forums and laugh the whole time.

This, who ever told you life is fair?

Obligatory u mad bro? I managed to get a couple of my characters made before I had to head in to work. Won't be to play until tomorrow most likely but RL comes first and all, gotta have your priorities straight.

In a week none of this will matter at all so I'm going with number 2

The server my guild originally picked had an approx queue time of 9 hours, the QQ on those forums was just as loud as it is here.

Anyone who thinks Rift had a smooth launch wasnt there for the epic QQ about queue times. People are going to whine and moan regardless of what method a developer uses at launch.

I'm enjoying it. I got my email before work, reserved the characters I wanted. Now I can just sit back and enjoy the QQ instead of actually working