Poor early access and general release.

[Olivitess]

Guild Wars 2 release wasn't that fantastic, not for all servers anyways. I don't see why people moan about not getting to play ARR today or tomorrow, the game will still be there and Square Enix are working hard to improve the system, surely you want a game that works? And yeah the constant rebalancing in GW2 really annoyed me, just leave my characters alone! haha.

[6thgear]

Guild Wars 2 release wasn't that fantastic, not for all servers anyways. I don't see why people moan about not getting to play ARR today or tomorrow, the game will still be there and Square Enix are working hard to improve the system, surely you want a game that works? And yeah the constant rebalancing in GW2 really annoyed me, just leave my characters alone! haha.

I can understand "why" folks are upset. When we pre-ordered we got offered a few nice incentives for doing so. Some ingame items, beta access, and early access before release. That was "why" a fair number did the pre-order. Yes, we bought the game cause we wanted too, but getting what was offered should be expected.

And I can also see why many are upset with this early access. I've been stuck at lv 12 the entire day. I've almost got all my craft skills and harvesting skills upto the same level as my primary role. Why? Because we cannot get past the story quests that rely on the job finder.

Also, as the OP stated some of us work. I for one am heading on a 2 week vacation to PAX prime in seattle on Weds, and will spend the week following camping in the mountains to unwind. I personally wanted to spend the weekend getting my CNJ to lv30 so I could work on my secondary to reach WHM shortly after I got back. But since I've been stuck at lv 12 for nearly the entire day that will likely not happen.

So yes, we all get this is a release issue, but we knew this issue would happen weeks ago, heck months ago because they never sorted out forum server load issues. This was expected, but it was a foreseeable issue that SE should have addressed long before.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Guild Wars 2 release wasn't that fantastic, not for all servers anyways. I don't see why people moan about not getting to play ARR today or tomorrow, the game will still be there and Square Enix are working hard to improve the system, surely you want a game that works? And yeah the constant rebalancing in GW2 really annoyed me, just leave my characters alone! haha.

Guild Wars 2 has been beset with issues from release, that southsun event completely nuked the lions arch instance for most players and it took months for players to get the event bonus's fixed up.