If you ask for a refund they will give it to you. However, there is no official word. EA has not started yet. This will get fixed, if not today, tomorrow. If they can't fix it they will come up with a solution. We had a similar problem with Beta 4 and it was resolved a couple of hours before it started.

People are overreacting and foreseeing the worst. However, EA has not started yet. They still have over 10 hours to fix the problem.