I'm just really sad, honestly. I had been away from the game for quite some time, and I came back because someone told me about the whole Early Start thing. So, I bought the digital deluxe expansion, 6 months of game time with associated additional retainer fees, and some service fees to get myself to my friends and get started with all the awesomeness. We've got 2 people in my FC that have made it past Cold Steel. Half of us are stuck in cyclic 90000 errors, and the other half are sitting at Raubahn and praying.

I just finally got out of my own cycle of 90k errors, so I'm back to praying at Raubahn... Meh. I wish there were at least more side quests available before this bottleneck.