You don't shell out extra anything for pre-launch. Why do people keep saying this? It's completely misleading , actually no it is it's just a lie.

Because they need something to complain about, and they know they hyave no real reason to justify it so they make one up. I payed just as much for my game as the people buying it tomorrow will.

I had queues all the time on WOW (everyone's game they rave about) and pretty much every other MMO I have ever played, especially during the first few days or weeks. Also, all of them were subscription games.

It just means that there are a ton of people playing the game, which is good, and that they are trying to force people to balance servers a bit at launch.

For the record, I waited 3 hours to get in-game last night. It sucked, but oh well. It will get better.

My most heartfelt of apologies for wounding you so deeply but it was my impression you needed to pre order the special edition of the game to get into the prelaunch whatever they want to call it. Apparently since I don't really care about this game and as such I never felt like bothering to tipple check what I had been hearing, I was mistaken that there was an extra cost above and beyond the preorder.

regardless the prelaunch is not a stress test and my point still stands that people are paying for the game and a queue is unacceptable. They should have had all the server issues hammered out by now. If they can't handle the pre orders, god help them .....

To those who pooh-pooh on our beef with the pre-release frustration, let me remind you that one of the lures used to entice people to pre-order was being able to play the game before it was available via retail. This, along with the delay not getting the "bonus" items that were sold as part of the package, spells out a poorly thought-out and managed release.

I can understand the faction locks, it's the only way they can ensure something even approaching balance in this type of game, but the queues are just unrestrained fail. Do I feel cheated I spent $50 on the pre-order...yes, but only because now I have to wait along with everyone who didn't pre-order to play. Or call in sick and sit in front of my PC logging in every 5 minutes to try and jump the queue.

They shouldn't have sold pre-releases (or whatever term you want to use) that allowed people early access without knowing what their system could handle. Mind that they also only have Easter and Western timezones, so those of us in the middle third of the US have to play ping-pong with timezones.

oh poor you in the middle of the USA shut up the rest of us have to go off your ridiculous times, you know when you guys have maintanence at one in the morning thats 7-8PM over here prime playing time

As for paying more for the collectors editions/pre launch you got other things and realistically what does playing 2 days earlier get you nothing absolutly nothing, you may hit max a little sooner irrelevant unless your just trying to speed through the game in a month and run back to WoW if so it woulda been much more logical to w8

the queues are just a part of life deal with it i used to sit and w8 for an hour min to get into WoW because the oceanic server my chars were on was constantly packed

it got to the point where i just left it with a char on to save time