At first when people compared WoW's launch 8 years ago and this one, I said WoW's was worst because even though instance servers were broken, the rest of the game worked well. Now, after over 12h of a majority of players unable to log in the game, I have changed my mind.

I'm not sure if they are locking people out on purpose to work on their instance servers issues or if their login servers are messed up THAT bad, but either way, this is kind of unacceptable considering they knew in advance the traffic they would have to deal with by the amount of registered pre-orders.

I hope we get compensated by more than what we've lost so far, AKA near to 2 days of downtime with these issues and the 4 emergency maintenances.

OH! And they better offer free server transfers to those few servers they locked for character creation. It is not a favor to be able to play with our friends when you play a game, it's the basis of any MMO. We shouldn't have to pay character transfers or reroll even if it is still early in the game.