I do defend SE at this point and only until Tuesday, if it's still this bad then that's another matter.

I worked in the video game industry for 5 years, seen and helped with the release of some big names, and so I can understand from their side about day 1 (or before) issues, ESPECIALLY server issues. Honestly, some of the games I worked with had such severe server problems they went down the second the game launched and stayed down for 2 days. Luckily, those games had a single player aspect to them, so the complaints were not as big, but still.

I understand feeling like the early access is paid for, but think of it this way...would you expect to pay any less if they had not offered it? If you say you would not have purchased it because of 3 days early access, then you're probably not SE's target anyway. You're paying your money for the licence fee, that is all. No more, no less.