oh my god that sucks so much. I remember release of WoW, I played on tichondrius way back then and the queue was about like that. Once, I saw it up to 10k!
(Tich was the most populated server at that time)
I think it'll smooth out though once they: fix botters/gold spam, people who end up crying that Aion is to hard go back to WoW, They offer character transfer to low-pop!
Hoping myself for all 3 to happen.