I was actually planning to say that aerib, I got it also preordered so i will give it a try.
Maybe it's because of vague hope that funcom has actually learned something about MMO's with all this years they been running AO that I hope that they remove silly things like "/instancehopESCAPADE" and make them more like TR wise "certain points in the world where you can switch the instance" (as I don't see any real reason why force people in diffirent instances, as it's proven people do know how to hop to another instacne when other one starts feelign bit to crowded)
Personally the beta and 3 months that I played TR with my friends and our guild there we hardly ran in to whole not meeting eachothers problem as saying "I am in palisades 3, get here" was not really that big issue for overall gameplay. And yes we still ran in to plenty of people there even if TR has no OVER 9000000 PLAYERS!
as for pvp... no complaints there actually, TR had guild pvp system only so you could attack only those you were in WAR with so even LESS pvp than in normal MMO, but we still found it pretty easily just either switched to most highly populated zone and there most highly populated instance of it, went to hang around in town and most of time there was something worth of killing in there.
it's just something you have to get used to, and whatever you say TR was no diablo 2
I agree lot of socializing is good for MMO's and that is what it is all about BUT sometimes
you will LIKE instances... when you join in the lauch and everyone is leveling with same speed as you.. trust me you will LIKE instances it dosen't just mean you get your Mobs 2 hours faster than you would when there was +20 in same area it also means there is less lag and more playability (and please don't pretend
WoW has no lag, remember before I quit I had played it since US beta
WoW release was Lagfest beyond comparison, servers were runned by antique systems and getting in took hours sometimes and quests... god don't even get me started on those, and it took Blizzard long time to fix those )
So try my advice here, try it before you whine about it ( I know I whined lot about TR's instanced areas until my friends actually got me to try beta )