You have to understand what your customers are like and as a collective we are a cowardly and superstitious lot (of manbabies) and things need to start off without any hint of impropriety or we'll bitch about it forever.
We are literally in the eye of that moment that people will point to years later when they reflect on their time on Ragefire. Oh and the lies they'll tell. I HAD A FUNGI FROM THE BETABUFF BUT I HAD TO KEEP IT IN MY BANK UNTIL KUNARK. Sure you did bucko. Just being a half hour behind due to the server lock is going to be enough for people to get salty as fuck and demand refunds. If you expect the kinds of EQ players that are showing up to this to sub six accounts for two years than you need to get this off on the right foot and that means a wipe.
Personally when the second set of level 50s started popping up I lost any hope this would work out. If there are gigantic problems like those than there are also smaller problems waiting to spring up and turn cancerous. Guaranteed.