Emergency Maintenance would solve nothing.

[Maeka]

I think the biggest thing they failed to foresee is ridiculous reaction of the playerbase at large. Instead of going "oh well, I'll try again tomorrow", everybody's throwing themselves at the brick wall expecting things to be different the next time. If people'd be more reasonable, more people would get through and this wouldn't be such a huge issue.

[Brill_]

I think the biggest thing they failed to foresee is ridiculous reaction of the playerbase at large. Instead of going "oh well, I'll try again tomorrow", everybody's throwing themselves at the brick wall expecting things to be different the next time. If people'd be more reasonable, more people would get through and this wouldn't be such a huge issue.

tomorrow won't be better since so many people need it. The gated 90% of the expansion behind this. Saying "oh well, I'll just wait a month to do this" isn't acceptable.