As a paid subscriber and a long term player/beta tester I understand the concern of a week of downtime, especially when a new feature is introduced that a large number of us AMD users can't experience.
F2P users must also be upset but being a paid subscriber who loses a week of play just makes it worse.
The matter that really bothers me is that some users reported this issue was still prevalent in the testing server and not addressed. Hopefully this is not true but if it is, and BioWare went live with this patch knowing this, then it's a new truckload of anger people will be feeling.
Hopefully BioWare will sort this out by next patch and compensate the subscribers who could not get in somehow.