How do you think the negative reviews due to server issues will affect sales?

[Totorixiii]

You have to understand that an angry customer is most likely to post / try to affect the game (in this case). In the other hand, we have 5k x idk how many servers with happy players. Which will not post anything because they are busy enjoying the game.

Yup, there are people out there with an Agenda if you anger them and frustrated them. They will basically throw ammos with any type of reasons to degrade someone or such!

[Joshhoowah]

Most of the negative reviews focus on the bad launch and not the game content. Anybody who takes the time to read a few of the reviews will notice that.

[Cronk]

leme give ya my 2gil:
i dont think that it will mather much, they have already sold all the seats for this show, they dont have to wory to sell much more copys, they just have to make sure that the ppl that bough the tickets enjoy the show and pay to see the sequels

[EmiliM]

As far as I can tell, most of the reviews have been positive. Most have pointed out the same strengths and weaknesses, and most have recognized the server issues as unfortunate but ultimately a temporary setback that does not affect the quality of the game itself.

At the same time, any review that tried to downplay the server issues or (god forbid) ignored mentioning the server issues altogether were set upon by rabid trolls with the singular goal of denouncing the game as if it was responsible for the death of their childhood pet. Too bad the trolls, whether in the comment sections of those reviews or on these forums, don't realize they all sound like this:

Troll: "Wah wah wah, SE sucks because I can't play, I'm entitled to blah blah blah. This is unacceptable. I will make the biggest fuss in the world. I'm going to quit this crap and get my money back because this is garbage and-"
SE: "Server's up"
Troll: *first one in line to log back in*

[Dorkula]

Troll: "Wah wah wah, SE sucks because I can't play, I'm entitled to blah blah blah. This is unacceptable.

How is it being entitled to want to play a game that you paid for? I understand that people go a little far in their criticisms but calling them entitled is ignorant at best. It IS unacceptable that an MMO that is relaunching because the previous version failed so hard would not work for days at a time. They did a stress test and these same issues popped up but since they decided to run the test 2 days before early access there wasn't much they could do about it, which was another mistake. There are people that bought the game and haven't even been able to make a character let alone log in. Calling somebody a troll because they point out that a reviewer downplays a significant flaw in the game(not being able to play it) is also a little much.