One hour into the headstart of Wildstar I can report that the game is working as expected, that is to say not at all. You only ever get an endless string of "NCSoft login service timeout" messages and can't even make it to character creation. Pro tip: You can copy your password to the clipboard and re-enter it every time by just using CTRL-V, which is a lot of speed gain if you want to retry over and over.

[The game started working a bit over one hour after official release time.]