Annedromeda, that is a fantastic signature quote!

How very unique. A complainer who puts himself above other complainers by complaining about complainers!

Yeah, I complained via in game ticket about this and was told "We took your issue to our special team who says this is not a bug....that it is working as intended. Translation--"Yeah, we broke it on purpose, now deal with it". Since crafting as my major interest in the game, this is definitely a game breaking change, as it seriously cripples my main character.

Rank 2 Bountiful and Rich are both missing for me since 1.2 patch. I put in a ticket and they responded saying that they took my issue to the Special Team who said there is nothing wrong....that it is working as intended. Doesn't that almost sound like they said, "Yeah, we broke it on purpose, now deal with it."

As it happens, I ordered the game on 10/8, but how in the hell does that make me better or more entitled to someone who ordered on 10/9? How is comparing this to the pre-launch of other games a bad thing? Isn't that what we all do? A certain standard is out there. It's been out there and it is the basis by which we judge. It is absolutely absurd to have people just trickle in. If it is open, then it should be open....period! Not just open to you today, and you tomorrow, and you not until next week because you did not buy this soon enough.

I would not have expected to get in to early access if EA had not announced that everyone who pre-ordered would have access. But, they did make that announcement, so (silly me) I believed them. I've been playing mmo's for more years than I care to remember and I always pre-order. Quite a few games I've played have offered early access to all who pre-ordered. The difference here is that all other games actually delivered. I've never heard of a game letting people in in waves. A ton of us who have pre-ordered have not so much as received an e-mail yet. I cannot understand the thought process behind their "wave" system. Didn't their stress tests tell them anything? How could they possibly expect the people left out of wave after wave of early access to be happy with it? Or, is it that as long as we are willing to pay them, they simply do not care? It really should not matter when a pre-order happened. It has never mattered with any other game. This system is utterly absurd.