Will char creation be closed?

[Haemish-kilrogg (Haemish)]

But this limits the amount of potential login issues. In your scenario you have to deal with world server crashing. Not being there means you add the potential of both login server issues and authentication server issues.

[Mogar-stormrage (Mogar)]

The character selection screen will time you out in 30 min, even if you move toons and make toons and click around. So you will have a small window to skip ahead of the queue.

I was curious so I just tested this and yes…it does disconnect you. Even if you’re making characters to keep from being ‘idle’.

So no, you can’t log into the server and sit there for hours waiting for them to go Live.