https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-forever-beta-development-notes-%E2%80%93-updated-october-26/2360696/8

I didn't expect everything to go off without a hitch. I was here back in 2005 when we were trying to raid MC and server lag was so persistent during primetime hours that it often made the content unplayable (for those who didn't experience it - the rubberbanding was so intense that you literally could not manage large trash pulls. Every time you tried to do it, the raid would wipe. And it's not like we had the content on farm or something during that era).

So yeah, Blizzard has an established history going back to the beginning of just outright... muffing it; having technical issues.

But all I wanted to do was spend 5 minutes reserving three damned names. And I know that by the time I get in - whenever that might be - that they'll be gone. Because they're common.

It's just frustrating. I'm more mad at myself than anything - I, once again, was taken for a ride; I thought that this time, perhaps, I could actually do XYZ involving Blizzard Entertainment and not wind up with a clusterfuck.

Silly. Me.

The word "Con" is restricted, because of this I can't even name my character Connor, which is my fucking name. Thanks Claude.

Blizz just added another line to the racial changes from earlier.

Click your profile name and check if it says you're connected to "Americas". If it is, log out and click Switch Accounts. In the top right should now be a cog wheel you can click to select Europe. Log back in. Play button shouldn't be greyed out anymore.

Of course this doesn't fix servers not being up yet, but might at least fix that.