Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
The question isn't a matter of ability but of will. It is a game we paid money for. You're content with waiting and doing other things in the meanwhile, and that's your right - just as it is other people's right to want to power through the MSQ and be upset when the game effectively doesn't work. And what of people who play older content, but were also affected by this? A guildie of mine got locked before getting the Black Chocobo in HW because it too required a solo instance. Then there are people who wanted to run roulettes, who were also affected by this. Are they supposed to look for other means of playing the game, too? I mean, some of these things are what you're suggesting the Raubahn crowds could go and do, but alas - they're locked. People even had the problem of accessing the RDM and SAM job solo instances.

This affected more than just the pre-access crowd who wanted to run MSQ and thus, points to a much more basic failure on SE's part. I'd be a lot more in agreement with you if truly this only affected The Binding Coils of Raubahn - but it didn't.
Yeah I'm completely in agreement with that...

This didn't just affect "pre-access"... this effectively crushed the game for just about everyone in any other thing you could have done.

So this went deeper than just a single quest and MSQ... this was a thorough lockout of large amounts of people in all the content as a whole.

More importantly it was preventable as they knew how many they would have just by gauging the pre-orders.