Did any of u was there when Aion launch end of September 2009? I was one of the first I log because I was one of the 500.000 that pre-order the game and we start 4 days earlier than every1 else, well it was a mess people stuck at log in screens for days and couldn't log terrible experience well what happening now remind me the good old NC, but that's what happen when u see 35.000 on line users on forum and prepare 1 server for all of them, what else to say?
Well, honestly, this happened with Aion, WOW, WAR, etc. I'll be money it'll happen to TOR, too. I don't envy NCSoft - while too few servers has the problems we're seeing now, there've been a multitude of games that, a month or three after launch, settled on their populations and then had too many servers for the economy and PVP to work right so they had to consolidate/merge servers; a process that generally nobody likes (even if the end result is for the best) due to name collisions for characters, guilds, loss of server personality, etc.
I'll be honest - I wasn't expecting this many people to try it out. Well known or not, it is an older title! @_@