"Early access"

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If you pre-ordered the regular version of the game, you would still get early access. If you pre-ordered the Collector's Edition, you did it because you wanted all the other goodies which come with it. Early access will continue over the next two days and my money is on it being up more often than it's down. I get that you're angry, but you definitely have got early access. The downtimes are part and parcel of the launch of any MMO, but you will probably have a good, what, 50 hours or so access before launch assuming that the servers are down for a third of the time.

They are not the part of any mmo. RIFT launched in 2011 and anybody could go to any server during EA and launch. Guild Wars 2 had full servers after EA and launch but they had free transfers from Day 1 to make up for it. The downtime and the inability to play on servers with friends is purely SE's fault. Its 5:45am EST as I type this the server list is showing LeviathanNA as full which is bullshit.