"2 days ago, we made the hard decision to enable a CAP on our player base. This CAP locks the game in a way that there can only be 450k players active, at any given point. The reason for that is that, with this cap, our servers could support those players with almost no performance issues(server side issues, at least). The counterpart is that players that aren't inside the game aren't able to join our servers. Without this cap, every player would constantly drop, which would result in a bad experience for everyone. This decision was temporary and only made because we needed to ensure that most of our player base was able to enjoy the game.

Tomorrow's patch won't solve all issues, I won't lie. But we expect it to solve the issues for most players.

I know, you want to play it now, you have the right for it. We also want you to play this game now. But we honestly didn't expected the game to be that big. We are suffering from success, and soon, we won't be suffering anymore."

Last Dev Statement;

"Hello everyone, The Black-Screen bug directly relates to the Server being at capacity.

*I understand that you guys are mad because you can't play the game, but currently, we don't have fixes or proper ways to solve this issue.
The folks at Arrowhead are working 24/7, with almost all our work going directly into this problem.

There is an update scheduled for tomorrow, which is intended to solve almost all issues related to logins, servers, and matchmaking. If the problem was only server size and money, it would have been fixed already. We are doing everything on our hands to
improve server capabilities."