Should have listened to Bolty

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I understand they set server population caps artificially low for the starting period. Thus all the queues at the beginning. Isn't that precisely what you're talking about?
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No. That is the number of people logged in at any one particular time. I meant they should have limited the actual number of accounts that could be created per server. It seems that a few of the servers got a disproportionate number of new accounts. As all these people try to hit the server they made accounts on, then the queues appear as they try to all get back in. I was of the mind that, if they spread the new accounts across the realms better, the traffic might have evened out a little better. However, Bliz has noted the following on the WoW site:

Please also note that we have determined that the latency issues that have cropped up are unrelated to individual server populations. For the time being, latency while fighting and looting monsters can be expected on all servers, regardless of population. We are continuing to focus on resolving this issue as quickly as possible.