Unlocking the servers at an exact specific time and announcing it is just a guaranteed DDOS attack on the Authentication Server. It's happened on multiple WoW releases, it happened in D3 beta (well, more like any time the server hiccuped it took a couple hours to get back to normal because every tried to log back in immediately), it'll keep happening in Blizzard releases until they figure out a way to stagger the load. It's not economically feasible to create an authentication server strong enough to handle the initial load of the most preordered game ever and have it be over-specced the remaining 99.9% of its lifetime.
Sadly, letting people login and create characters early but not start games would just push the DDOS to the game creation part.
Sadly, letting people login and create characters early but not start games would just push the DDOS to the game creation part.
Trade yourself in for the perfect one. No one needs to know that you feel you've been ruined!