NCsoft has dropped the ball on their launch of AION Online? It sure seems like it. Reports are coming in that there are queues of 2,500 people and more as well as three hour waits just to get into the game. It seems that their 18 server strategy will never be able to hold up to the 400,000 plus pre-order gamers that are already trying to get into the game. 18 X 2,000 (player caps on servers) = 36,000 = less than 10% of gamers will be able to play at once. Not a very smart strategy if you ask me.

This just seems to be a case of poor planning on the part of Ncsoft. When pre-orders began to soar they should have thought about opening new servers for the launch. To only be able to hold less than 10% of the games sold just seems ridiculous.

GDN has contacted NCSoft about the issue and is awaiting reply.