Thi is nonsense.. This is NOT beta anymore..

[BabySealClubber]

customer: there's pickles on my burger, but I asked for no pickles
cashier: sorry, I'll fix that right away, just give me the burger back
customer: ---- that! you should have made the burger right the first time!
other customer: Wendy's is worse, be glad you got a burger
customer: ---- that! this isnt wendy's, this is burger king. I get to have it my way. I make burgers at my house all the time without pickles on them

[Solace]

customer: there's pickles on my burger, but I asked for no pickles
cashier: sorry, I'll fix that right away, just give me the burger back
customer: ---- that! you should have made the burger right the first time!
other customer: Wendy's is worse, be glad you got a burger
customer: ---- that! this isnt wendy's, this is burger king. I get to have it my way. I make burgers at my house all the time without pickles on them

Read the last few posts above me..
Do you think they have no right to complain?

No, you just want to troll..
Here you go /gives cookie.. you happy now?

[Arriverderci]

customer: there's pickles on my burger, but I asked for no pickles
cashier: sorry, I'll fix that right away, just give me the burger back
customer: ---- that! you should have made the burger right the first time!
other customer: Wendy's is worse, be glad you got a burger
customer: ---- that! this isnt wendy's, this is burger king. I get to have it my way. I make burgers at my house all the time without pickles on them

Hey I work at Burger King and a newbie at it. xD!
Take your damn pickles off yo!
/Getsfired.
Damnit. xD

Well technically we did pay for EA...so yeah. But shit happens man. :/
I never been in a MMO Launch before so I dunno. There's tons of folk playing this game so problems would likely happen.

[Altheras]

I do think they should have extended the beta for another full day due to the downtime, overload, and serious issues we had durng beta. I do agree that this is no longer a beta test, but the problem with MMOs, especially early on, is that they are unpredictable, and often times they can think they've got a problem hammered out, and it will pretend that it's gone for a while, only to later on pop right back up again leaving the programmers with mental BSOD. lol

The truth is, a 3 hour emergency maintenance is no big deal. You should go play WoW, they have 8-10 hour emergency maintenance normally along with an 8 hour maintenance EVERY SINGLE WEEK just about.

In the past I have noticed that SE does much better on that front, seemingly having the ability to implement changes and fix things much faster than Blizzard ever has. A 3 hour downtime isn't so bad compared to the much longer downtimes I'm used to from other games.

The thing to keep in mind is that an MMO is an unpredictable animal, they can think things are fixed only to have them pop back up again or to have new problems pop up from a freshly implemented fix. You should always expect downtime and issues on fresh release, after major patches, and anytime there is an expansion. It's just the nature of the beast. I can say SE handles it a lot better than some other companies and usually much faster.

The best thing to do is just go do something else for an hour or two and check back.