Personally, I don't care who goes first, as long as the time is more equal.
I long for the day when they can merge environments. Would be a technical nightmare, resolving duplicate names for players and guilds and dealing with character slot overload if an account games on both EU and NA, but it would be so worth it imo. Then they could do a character merge from console too and give the console folks something to test with.
Plus, then they could add character environment copy to the crown store and charge a bajillion crowns for it.