I was this close to wiring cash to my favorite dealer for this game, but then I kept hearing(reading) horror stories about not being able to create characters in many servers or just gets plain locked out with hopeless retries.

You guys have the same problem? I'm aware that this game just opened its gates a few days back and, like some new shopping mall that's just opened, people will flock in like a bunch of Zergs. Perhaps I should wait until the hype dies down a bit? Maybe until next month at least?

Feel sorry for your cousin.

On one hand, the troll side of me want to laugh at all the people who go the extra mile and plan their lives around the game, instead of planning the game around their lives. Yeah, I'm able to feel this way because I'm not a huge fan of MMOs; the first and last time was PSO2, and the fun ended when the admins seem to start targeting foreign players.

On the other, I feel like smacking SE's management for handing out more copies for ARR(thus more accounts) than their allocated servers could handle. I mean, they had 4 open beta phase to gauge interest and the right amount of servers. Why sell the promise of playing the game to a million kids when your server could only handle half that load(example amount)? While they're locked out of the game, their credits are running, and then we're gonna have people who paid RM95 only to be able to play the game for less than 5 hours out of 30 damn days due to lockout.
But then I'd be starting out when everyone else already maxed their stats.

Can't explain. It just... sucks. 

Alright, you're one step closer to selling me this game.

Now, is there any server with GUARANTEED access inside? I don't care if it's EU or NA or JP; as long as the ping is good for Malaysians, I can create characters and really play it, I'm good.