Are you people really daft enough to believe this is really a pre-release?

They're filtering the number of people that all try to flood the servers at once, so the game servers don't implode like the website did.

It's not a pre-release, it's a staggered release, and ******** at that, though with 2000 people on my server (as pointed out via GHQ, though there could be others that come that aren't from GHQ) I don't see how they didn't let us all log in over the last 12 hours.