Well, the obvious first thought is what everone else is already saying - there's NO WAY they were prepared to launch this game. It took people 4+ hours to register for the game (it only took me about 2-1/2, but I gave up for a bit), and now the servers keep rocking up and down, up and down. They're saying it's an Oracle problem, something that never came up during the beta...which tells me that beta wasn't (a) long enough or (b) inclusive enough.
Oh well...second thoughts will be posted tomorrow -- what I've seen so far (when I've been in the game, at least) has been pretty impressive.