Remember guys.

[Towoberto]

Except the majority of people KNEW they were going to get Stormblood, so why not preorder and get the bonuses that are included?

Seriously, these problems would of been there if no one pre ordered or not, just delayed 4 days. It's a new server thats not been stress tested, along with a new expansion and the usual issues that occur from people flooding back.

So we got our early access and play time to be stress testers? as an engineer myself i know this kind of tests should be done even before the a company offer a service (in this case the new servers "location") we can manage X amount of players, X amount of data per second, X amounts of connections at a time, if is not enough just get another one that can do the job. Also if a servers goes down they should have a backup server so the service doesnt go down, its normal in high availability services like this, also since they began the prepurchase they should have aknowledge the amount of players they will get the first day and react to that making that "backup" server work as a primary too for a couple of days. And i mean, its SE we are talking about, they should already know all this.

[Felis]

So we got our early access and play time to be stress testers?

Not exactly
Stress testers are not those who have early access, but more those who move with the mass from one check-point to the next. Some early access players decided to level first RDM or SAM and have less problems (except dungeon queues), or level up DoH/DoL to get some early cash during the early access.

Speed down, don't be part of the mass.