According to who you ask, Worlds of Warcraft is either having a launch smooth as a baby’s butt, or a clusterfuck of imaginable proportions. Can you guess which server is complaining the most?

Blizzard likely brought this on themselves by not giving out server names early, forcing players to come up with their own rules – in this case, “Alphabetically, the first PvP server in the Central time zone” seemed to be pretty popular one for the players to choose.

There is surely a thesis here somewhere: sometimes a place just becomes an ‘it’ place. In Meridian, the city of Tos was the ‘it’ place – when we launched beta, it’s where you spawned. After we added other cities, and moved players to spawning other cities, they’d all gravitate to Tos, partially because it had already been set as a central traffic hub for the game. Old habits, it turns out, do in fact die hard, and once a place hits critical mass, it can take a lot to push them towards a new home.

Even if that home is EXACTLY IDENTICAL to other options that don’t require a 2 hour wait to log into.