Quote Originally Posted by alsiniz View Post
I mean if your argument is that people just have to suck it up and that pre-ordering the expansion and paying a monthly sub shouldn't guarantee a reasonable login or even a a reliable queue that doesn't constantly send you to the back then it's a very weak argument... People subscribe to the game and (rightfully) expect to play the game with that subscription; whether it's the new expansion or not. I don't know how you've managed to convince yourself that early access is free but if your understanding of paying for an expansion and paying for a monthly subscription somehow translates to "free" early-access then I honestly have no idea how to even address that.

Taking the servers down for deploying a patch is one thing and is necessary. The game requiring a several hour commitment that doesn't even function as intended and can constantly reset your progress in the queue is an entirely different beast. The latter demonstrates that SQuenix is selling a service they can't even provide in the first place.
read your EULA. you are not guaranteed 100% of the time to log in, with no reasons to even why you wouldn't be able to log on. MY argument is that there is a lot of people who ALL want to play the game and that means not everyone will get to play. this has been the case of MMO's during initial launch, major content patches, Ex-Pacs being dropped and many other times. SERVER stability is the company's concern and would rather inconvenience people by dumping people that are waiting to get in instead of risk loosing the server till they can get it back up and running. it's the best of all worlds because with stable servers when you are in you get to play the game! just when you aren't you have to understand what it is. and SQUenix has said this over and over and over and no one is hearing it because they don't want to.