What happens when "early access" is "cancelled" by server fail?

[Breakbeat]

On the subject of downtime replacing early access, I honestly don't care. I bought the expac to have the expac... early access would be kind of cool, I guess, but it doesn't diminish the value of the purchase if I don't get to play a week early. If I have to wait or cannot connect, so be it. My days of living and breathing a video game are long gone. I have other things to do in my life, should my favorite video game not be accessible for some length of time.

if the FFXIV community is anything like the WoW community

There are only people. Not 'these people' and 'those people' and people that play other MMOs and people that do this and that and so forth. Just individual people.

Anything anyone wants you to infer by using the words, "the WoW community..." (or, "the [whatever] community"; pick your favorite #label) and then going on to list some action, demeanor, behavior, likes, dislikes, etc., is nonsense.

All kinds of individual people play both, and all other, games. There literally isn't a single behavior you could list that represents the entire community of this game, that game, or any other group of people. When you get a million people in a group, you have one of every type of human in there, and no two are alike.

(Just like IRL... but we all knew that already, right?)

As an aside, I was an extremely active WoW player for a very long time, and quite active on their forums, therefore if we must, I was quite definitely part of the "WoW community".

Also, I am like the anti-"WoW player" (anti- in the sense of a polar opposite, not anti- in the sense of being opposed to something.) I don't complain if deadlines are missed, never gave a crap about downtime / maintenance whether it was scheduled or unexpected, never ranted about gear or drop rates, could not have cared less how others wanted to play their characters or gear themselves up, never ran nor touted DPS meters, and I never ran into the legendary "toxic WoW community". That's right, never a single person on an ignore list... and the arguments I had with random people over some twelve or thirteen years - I could count those on one hand.

I surrounded myself with good people, family and friends, hundreds of people I met in WoW... and we all behaved nothing like the infamous "WoW community". We couldn't have possibly been the only ones. The "toxic WoW community" label does all of us a disservice, and IMVHO we far outnumber the negative folk who play WoW - it's just that their barks are quite loud, and people like myself having a good time don't really need to bark at all.

People only report on their negative experiences, others pick up on that and then have confirmation bias when they interact with the people around them. Those folks report only their bad experiences, and then it's like mass hysteria, and there you are: The big, bad WoW community. Comprised primarily of neutral or positive people and a small, toxic, vocal minority.

Again, just like in real life.

/shrug