Where did you play DAoC because the EU launch on Feb 15 2002 in the UK was very smooth. There were issues with the Shrouded Isle EP launch though but without any shadow of a doubt beta testing and playing pretty much every MMO there's been since EQ, the worst launch for a vanilla game was WoW. Servers down, crashing, lag, characters stuck looting, simply too many people in one place etc. On Turalyon we ended up with four days free time from the launch because it was that bad.

Can I just make a suggestion for the forums. At the moment when you quote someone there is no easy option to go back to that quote without vaguely trying to remember what page it was on. Most forum software has the ability of including a fast link back to the post you're quoting. Is it possible to have that included here? ETA: Also couldn't find anywhere else to post this other than here so if it's in the wrong place, please feel free to move it.

So true.

Swuh-ToR personally.