Any plans to tell us whats going on?

[Ramiren]

No additional compensation will be considered IF its in a well enough state for the 2oth, as much as people want to fight the fact of the matter: Early Access, Head Start, Pre-Release, Open Beta -- these terms are mutually exclusive to each other (they mean the same thing) They are all live test periods, its the stance that has been taken by nearly every publisher since 2007. The pre-order bonuses are the compensation given to players for the potential inconvenience, they 'grey area' here is that the issues are greatly affecting those who have not pre-ordered too, my suspect points to the NADC upgrade having faulty hardware or software.

Except that's rubbish isn't it. Those terms don't all mean the same thing and aren't all test periods.

An open beta is a testing period post alpha testing, you may or may not get to carry over your progress into the finished product.
A Head Start, Pre-release and Early Access refer to access to a finished product prior to release.

You can't trick people into testing your product by not referring to it as a test, likewise you can't call something early-access that's actually a test, the expectations for these kinds of access are wildly different. Not to mention Square-Enix has ran FFXIV beta tests in the past and always referred to them as such.

And while we're on the subject, early access is a total scam anyway, we give them money not knowing if the product is any good, and when it turns out to be garbage we can't even review it as officially speaking it isn't released yet. No need to worry about their metacritic being bombed if shit hits the fan prior to the game's "release".