Walter Yarbrough is the content producer and part of the design team of Dark Age of Camelot and he comments Blizzard’s debacle along the same lines of myself:

Taking this a step further,

WoW’s population peaks and valleys will be worse than most other MMO’s out there.

Having a worldwide server – like EQ – means that population lows in Europe, East Coast, West Coast and Asia don’t coincide – the servers remain relatively populated as players log in and log off throughout their peak playing hours.

WoW won’t have that – when they are at off-peak, they will *really* be off peak, and their server populations will be very low.

Not predicting this as a bad thing or good thing – just noting it.

-Walt