So much for EARLY ACCESS, time to consider compensations?

[Dastard]

If you advertise a bonus, privilege, bribe or anything else you want to call it and don't deliver you have essentially committed false advertisement. That's the black and white of it. SE failed to uphold their end of the bargain because they didn't qualify the terms.

If SE had added something like "Please be aware that server stability may limit the time in which you may participate in Early Access", what would have happened?

Fewer pre-orders for one.

"Hey, order the game and get in early! We won't tell you how early until it's really close to the time, and then we're not gonna mention server stability either because LOL@U, you already paid!" Not a very catchy slogan. And the "you should've known it would be like this, every launch has issues, blah blah" argument is weak. It is what it is, a messed up Early Access.

There is absolutely no way anyone can justify or defend this from a business standpoint. Anyone who says otherwise is just delusional, and I pray you never have any serious control over any company I invest in.

As far as how big a deal it is, it's not that big of a deal to me. I certainly don't think anyone deserves super special mounts or weapons for it.

If anything, SE could send an in-game item, one-time use that grants +50% (or so) exp for 3 days (time runs out whether you're logged in or not) to make up for any 'time/exp loss'. I couldn't care less!

[Felis]

If you advertise a bonus, privilege, bribe or anything else you want to call it and don't deliver you have essentially committed false advertisement. That's the black and white of it. SE failed to uphold their end of the bargain because they didn't qualify the terms.

Tell SE support that you didn't get your EA code or that the code don't work. Maybe they can help.