this is out of control

[MiniTofu]

Early access by definition means, you get to access the full product earlier than other people. It definitely does not involve being a tester.

Early Access is meant to stop PR review the game because it is not actually launched till June 20.

MMORPG website, PCGamer, Kotaku, VG247, Polygon, Destrunoid, Massively Overpowered websites are awaiting for official launch review. By then the game should be smooth as much as possible.

[Aramina]

Early Access is meant to stop PR review the game because it is not actually launched till June 20.

MMORPG website, PCGamer, Kotaku, VG247, Polygon, Destrunoid, Massively Overpowered websites are awaiting for official launch review. By then the game should be smooth as much as possible.

No early access is meant to... well.... access something early. What reviewers are doing has nothing to do with it.

[Discordia]

Early Access is meant to stop PR review the game because it is not actually launched till June 20.

MMORPG website, PCGamer, Kotaku, VG247, Polygon, Destrunoid, Massively Overpowered websites are awaiting for official launch review. By then the game should be smooth as much as possible.

Early Access was a bonus for pre-ordering the game. It's like any other pre-order bonus in any other game. Some are physical in nature (e.g., you get a bookmarker, a pin, a plushie, etc.), while most are digital in nature.

In this case, this is a DLC for pre-ordering. This isn't WoW, where there were beta testing available for players to stress test the servers before launch. And since you don't seem to understand how MMO works, this isn't a brand new game. This is just merely an expansion, and as such, SE should've seen this coming from a mile away. If you want to know about their track record, in the past week alone, their reputation has tanked due to major problems with a mobile game (some of you may have heard) called SINoALICE (シノアリスー), which is directed by Yoko Taro (Nier:Automata), and they've probably had a total of maybe 30 hours of uptime over a whole week period in which the servers were crashing, congested and eventually taken down in at least 5 emergency maintenance.

Whoever is in charge of server operations and their network at Squeenix should be fired.