I feel your pain. I would say hang in there, but honestly I have declined to subscribe myself. People say play on a JP server, but my legacy character from 1.0 and my FC and friends are all on another NA server and I don't want to start over. I'm frustrated with everyone else that the solution is to wake up at 5am, log in, and then go AFK for hours.

If it's not better by the time this "free period" is up I just won't be a subscriber. Sometimes you just cut your losses and move on.