6 day queues anyone?

Call it what you want, but letting some people play today, but making others wait as long as 6 days is a queue, and worse than a normal queue since people waiting on the email have no idea when they will get it.

The game has the longest queue I have ever been in, it could last almost a week for some people, and they really have no way of knowing how long it will be.

This is a queue except for some it lasts days instead of hours.

I'm not the OP, I just agree. This isn't a troll, and isn't exactly QQ although there is some of that involved. I just want to put it down for the record that the way this early access program has been implemented is truly one of the most poorly conceived ideas that I've ever personally encountered in over 25 years of playing video games. I've personally participated in launches of 6 other MMO games, and there is nothing in those experiences that compares to how ridiculous this process is. When you are dealing with a pre-launch even that is only for pre-order customers, after an extensive and massive beta testing period that was a huge success according to nearly all sources involved - it begs the huge question as to what is the limiting factor in the way you have chosen to roll out this game. I personally participated in the beta in a very limited way (not by choice, mind you, I just wasn't lucky enough to get a key) and was only online during the big Thanksgiving weekend test. That test was wonderful - there were a huge number of servers, and a huge population of testers. The game performance was amazing. So, EA/BW - what exactly are you afraid of? The ONLY way this should have been done is to have given ALL pre-orders (perhaps separated only by level of game purchased - i.e. CE customers get 7 days, SE get 5, e.g.) access at exactly the same time. Of course it will overload the servers and queues would ensue and all that - but that's what we all expect. Making your customers wait unknowingly with no idea how long it will be or when to expect an email is just adding insult to injury. A poor alternative would have been to send out emails with a set time and day that your access would be available. I read in the top post how you are monitoring the server performance and are rolling waves based on server performance. Are you seriously saying you have to wonder at this point if your servers can perform up to the task - when you probably still have 90% of the launch day players yet to even be able to play? That is not at all a good message to be sending at the beginning of an MMO franchise. At any rate, I love this game. I love BW. But I truly despise and am sickened by the way you chose to put your customers through so much stress for absolutely no good or justifiable reason. I truly hope you improve, because this is a very very poor way to start out. Pretty much my sentiment. No one told me I had to redeem some code to get into the prerelease so obviously I'm days behind the curve here even though I bought the game on 7/22, I didn't learn about this code until months later. GG Bioware...

Well seeing as most of the servers are sitting on light loads, but the invites stopped hours ago I'd say people have the right to be peeved.

Really? funny I did not have that issue on several other mmo's I was in at launch, only WOW.

I'd gladly take a few hour queue over an unknown amount of days.

They are responsible for instituting a system that is unfair for many reasons.

-1 post for the sheep fanboy.

Rift still has the best launch imo.

Thats a stupid analogy, we are talking about something we payed for already, not something we are waiting in line to pay for. I have stood in line for over an hour to buy concert tickets, and then had to stand in line a week later again to get in to the concert, Thats how things go. I'd prefer to wait in a 2 hour queue knowing eventually I will get in on day one, than to sit here with absolutely no idea when I will get in. I think what is the worst part is not the fact that it may be a day, or two, or even three, until I get in, it's not knowing at all when it will happen.

I played on faeblight, one of the largest population servers during Rift early launch, and had almost no problems at all, sure there was a queue, by the end of the day it was over an hour wait to get in, but an hour is a damn sight better that days as is the case for many here.

How could it no be successful when they stopped so early?

Are you for real? Why the hell would I lie about it, I don't know what day they got them, probably day 1 or 2, but the fact is they were both registered the same day, within minutes of each other, and only one got the email, the one from Origin.

A guy in my guild bought 2 copies the same day, one CE from a retailer, and a SE from origin for his brother, the brother who got the SE from origin is playing, the one with the CE is not, both games bought and registered the same day.

Your name says anything you say in defense of the devs is invalid LOL

And it was a stupid way of doing business for literally months.

Why end so early in the day?