We're the same bro, I also took a long vacation from work just to play this game, even went to a friend's house far from our house just so I wouldn't have to sit through the download because my ISP sucks.

Early access came, I was left alone while my friends rolled at Tonberry at BETA 4, fortunately for me, they were willing to re-roll to Tiamat. Launch came and 1017 dreaded everyone, especially the first weekend after the game came out. This was the first time that I had to wait this long just for a log-in.

At first I was like: "Yeah, 1017 affects us all so I'll just sit back here." but this is too much, an update for 10 hours and iirc, extensive testing by SE. My friends and most people I played with also stated that being in a queue no matter what the number was fine as long as they will get in and not get 1017'ed in the next few seconds or whatever number SE could muster up.

SE announced 7 days of free play time, play time that I would probably end up not enjoying because I will have to work again and I couldn't take a long break again after a few months. I was passive about the complaints from flamers and whiners, I tried my best to believe that SE was doing their best but I guess like you, Adamethius, it took its toll.

At this point and before the maintenance I attempt to log-in at around 10pm local time and if I get lucky I get as early as 10:30pm. Most of the times (like now), it is 1:05 am here and I am still sitting in front of my computer. I can't sleep because I already slept the morning off for the maintenance.

I just hope that finally SE will be able to put in a working queue, an auto-kick AFK timer and literally INCREASE the caps of online people on servers. Maybe, just maybe we will be able to play in peace.

See you.