Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
I agree with you that the initial month is part of the game purchase and is therefore not free, and as far as I can tell from Yoshida's latest letter, exactly what you said is being taken into account and that they are looking into extending the inital "free" play period to offset the time that players are not able to play. We will probably get more info concerning this after things are in a better state.
I would be surprised if they did not make an effort to accommodate people who are frustrated here, early release woes have been known to plague games long after things have been smoothed over. GW2's early issues matched with at the time lacking end game cause many to leave that, Diablo 3 while fun and all had an end game curve that was ridiculous early on, and also plagued it. Finally after promising my wife I would play this with her after initial not having any interest, the little time i had in beta 4/pre release changed my mind, and I would really love to be able to keep that promise.