Quote Originally Posted by Kleeya View Post
This early access is going quite well.

In some respects, absolutely. The servers came up on time and while there was some instability, SE seems to have mostly resolved that. Most parts of the game seem to work properly and I haven't encountered any real bugs yet. That there are login queues is a product of how many people are wishing to play.

However, even if it's not technically broken, the bottleneck that exists at Raubahn and Pippin makes the expansion practically unplayable. If it were just the MSQ, that would be bad enough, but all of our DoH and DoL are locked behind this as well, because you're limited to the first couple of zones by physical gates until later. This means that even attempting to occupy yourself with things like leveling crafters and gathers is relatively painful, as the XP quickly drops off, mats become unavailable, and you can't even get to many of the class quests. Somewhat paradoxically, I would say the launch overall has been quite smooth, yet the game remains mostly unplayable.