Are they seriously not going to be doing anything about this? It's been over 24 hours since this has been an issue.

It's early access, and they should have prepared for a large release (other AAA companies do), especially considering their advertisements.

Bottle-necking people from completing a quest and throttling them so that the servers don't get overloaded is not a viable solution. Because the amount of people attempting to complete the quest is not going to decrease, it is going to INCREASE.

SE seriously didn't think about all the people who took time off of work for this. And for what? To "do something else"?