My thinking is this: It's a downgrade and even hurts the service more.

I'm no networking guru or claim to know anything about the topic but if you have 10,000 people, at the same time, trying to open the same steel door, it won't work. Whereas, if you line them up, one at a time, and have them each open the door, it will allow everybody to enter.

I think the constant "pinging" of connection attempts is actually doing more harm than good, akin to DoS attacks on companies. Like I said, I'm not expert but I think that hundreds of thousands of people trying to dink and dunk their way in, is more taxing.

I love how in this early access, i've been able to play for all of maybe 4 hours straight before something happens.