And I think it might have crashed a second time about an hour later.
I personally wouldn't use the word "proud", exactly - I'm not happy that that many people had trouble staying on their home server for the last hours - but I think it says a lot about the dedication that people have to this game, that we could get that many people logging on in the middle of the night (or early morning for some in Europe, I imagine) for no other purpose than to be there when the servers get turned off.