Worst Launch Ever?

[Belisaire]

At least with 2.0 you could access 100% of the content, just with the risk of being disconnected every so often.

Nah. You must not remember error 3102, where you would be DC'd from the game and your character would stay logged in, for days sometimes, I think. The devs had to go around and manually log people out one by one if I recall correctly.