I've literally played hundreds of MMOs, and I've been in betas and launches in quite a few dozen of them. And never I've seen as many game-breaking server issues as in ARR, sorry.


And speaking of which, the only game from the last decade that I've had trouble after purchase because of server issues was SimCity, which is somewhat ironic because:

1) It was never supposed to be a MMO. People wanted it to be single player, but EA decided to ruin it for the sake of DRM.
2) It's Electronic Arts. Server issues and a shitty release is something we expect from EA, not Square Enix or any other AAA developers.