I held out hope that someone at Square-Enix had two braincells to rub together. I kept telling myself no developer was idiotic enough to fully block server registration all the way through launch.

This is an MMO.

I want to play with my friends.

Your official response has been "tough shit" since beta 4, and now launch is here and it's STILL blocked.

Expect a lot of angry requests for refund from my guild. I've never found a developer so inept that they could botch an MMO launch this bad in well over a decade of playing these games.

Server instability and errors are acceptable. Copy pasted "apologies" without solution is not acceptable when I can't play with my friends in an MMO. This is a joke.