The worst part is

[heynowjose]

how genuinely sad I am. I was so hyped and excited for stormblood, I was really looking forward to it. And I'm sure I'll enjoy it eventually but as of right now I'm sort of over it. I can't do anything. Im stuck doing old content with a new class if I want to enjoy anything. It's sad to get home from work and know that I can't even play and just have to deal with it because there's no fix coming. This is it. This is what its going to be like for this weekend clearly.

For those of you who've made it through congrats but for the rest of us, share your disappointment here. Lets commiserate together lol

[xvshanevx]

I'm in the same boat.

Was genuinely excited to experience the MSQ and run all the new dungeons and Primals, but I can't do any of that.

I'm really not angry... just disappointed.

[Daerellin]

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.

[TheLastDream]

We need pitchforks and torches....

[ZhaneX]

It's the Early Access Weekend, the game isn't even officially out yet...

[Xerukm]

It's the Early Access Weekend, the game isn't even officially out yet...

That's bs. Most of the people playing this game have already been playing in the EA. Only a small handful of players are actually waiting until release to buy the game.

[Rysir]

Im only sad that I once again miss out seeing what its like playing new content totally blind with others before guides are out.

[Quor]

It's the Early Access Weekend, the game isn't even officially out yet...

That doesn't matter. The game is down. We are paying for a working product. If Stormblood EA were a week from now and this was happening, would be like "Relax, SB isn't even out yet?" No. A paid product needs to work, or else there needs to be compensation. We're not incapable of understanding the limitations of an online game, especially an MMO, but to hand-wave this away like it's not a thing just because of EA is stupid.

[Nghthawk]

I think the worse part the having to load the same cut scene over and over again when I have it marked to skip all previously viewed cut scenes.

[Ryel]

It's the Early Access Weekend, the game isn't even officially out yet...

People really need to stop saying this.

If the issues were purely contained to Stormblood related content you would somewhat have a point. But are you telling me content like palace of the dead and Sastasha are included in the early access?

How about the servers themselves? Are those "early access" as well?

Multiple parts of the game are breaking or cycling periods where they are completely inaccessible to people who haven't even bought Stormblood and are still actively paying their subscriptions.

But i guess they should be content with the servers breaking over an "early access" they haven't paid for.

This entire situation was foreseeable and preventable but this is the boat we're in until it is fixed, so lets not continue to play the "Early access" card as if it's only having an effect on the people who preordered the expansion.