It was a coordinated attempt. Not a random instance of "oh look we are in exactly the same place at exactly the same time".
The only thing that makes sense to me is that they are starting players off at the same spot in the galaxy.
Other than that, coordinated attempt or no, if what was said about the size of the galaxies, especially after the patch made them 10x larger, is true then the chances of meeting up, coordinated or not, this far from the center and this soon should be astronomical. I just don't believe that something isn't going on here.
But even then, if they really are spawning people so close together then why did Sean say what he did about the multiplayer stuff and it being so unlikely that anyone would meet up?
I don't want to believe that the path to the center of the galaxy is really a linear path.