Same here, although I'm in Canada.

For the last weeks I've had tons of fun playing WAR again. There's been more and more players signing in and coming back. I don't get most of the doom & gloom about this game, nor do I get all the accusations about WAR running slow, being jittery, etc. It WAS jittery, but it's not anymore. The game just keeps getting better!

And the stories of nobody playing? I levelled up a character into Tier 3 in just one week doing nothing but RvR skirmishes, keep battles, zone flips, etc. -- and I'm a casual player.

There used to be a time when I could not find a war band for hours at a time on any tier, aside from Last Tier player sometimes. Now I can find players on Tier 2 and 3 even around 5-7am.

All the doom & gloom makes me think the commenters aren't playing the game at all, but just sit back and look at the patch notes and go back to WoW or something.