almost a week later and still 6 hr queues

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

And there’s nothing anyone can do about that ‘til the hype dies down. Regardless of the 2002s you’d be experiencing long queues during primetime anyways. That’s no ones fault.

The 2002's are the one huge thing that I would think SE should feel pressured to address and fix. Despite the dev posts, there's been work shown that it has nothing to do with packet loss. It's all in the log-in servers code and theoretically should be able to be fixed. Errors/Bugs are definitely a valid critique that SE should be taking seriously.

Long queue times? Can't be helped. Server hardware not available? Can't be helped.

Actual errors in the code? CAN be helped. That should be what everyone should focus on. Without 2002's, a good number of people would be perfectly fine to sit and wait their turn, if they knew that when it was up they could actually play.