Agree, 7 days extra is worthless since we've already gone 3 days without much play time. I have serious doubts the queues will get any better within a week. People making excuses for SE or blaming other companies is sickening, I thought WoW defenders were bad. The reality is SE took people's money and have DENIED them access to their paid product, this is no ones fault but their own. What they are doing is simply theft, there's no other word for it.

Blaming hardware shortages is a bad excuse, the servers have had queues every day for the past 3 months, nowhere near as bad as now, but they were there, especially during a crash, then you could get similar queues to what you have today. It should of been very easy to tell from pre-sales and existing population data what to expect in terms of numbers. Sad thing is there is NO shortage of CPUs, you may pay above MSRP but they are available from many retailers. As others have stated Cloud is a better alternative as it allows you to scale for surges in use, AWS has plenty of specialty servers including AWS GameLift which is specially for gaming servers, used by others like Ubisoft.