lol this thread is hilarious. SE didn't "drop the ball" on anything. It's an awesome MMO that's having launch issues just like every other MMO has had.

The only more ridiculous thing I've seen in my roughly 18ish years of MMO gaming is the amount of whining on the Neverwinter boards during all of that game's launch problems - and that's a totally free to play game haha. So, essentially, people were complaining they couldn't get into their free game. I'd wager roughly the same thing is happening here: most of the people complaining didn't actually pay anything EXTRA to get into Early Access, you just paid earlier. I know there may be some wrinkles with the legacy players, but for the most part, the money thing is being blown out of proportion.

In closing, the game is awesome