Well, the only other mmo's that I personally have played recently were TOR and WoW. ToR's launch went fine, the last two wow expacs went great, did not get dc'ed a single time and played flawlessly. Even got server first rogue.
So no, not new to MMO launchings. The launch is a failure so far, with many people unable to even log in. Saying anything otherwise implies that you are working for Arena net.
Game is great though