Dec 5th. However, I might not have pre-ordered if I knew early access was going to be staggered. I'm not complaining, I just don't think I would have paid the extra money for 1 day of early access which is most likely what we will be getting.
I was looking at the orders by date and they aren't through July yet completely so even with an increase in access each day, we will be lucky to get in around Sunday I would think. Anything before then will great.
You definitely need to pay attention when you pre-order a game going forward. If it says 'up to blah blah days' don't expect more than a day (if anything). I think a launch like this will be the standard going forward as it allows them to spend as little as possible on servers etc. It's smart cost wise.
No one needs to blame BW for this though as they clearly stated 'up to'. Does it suck? Of course. But, there are other things to do in life. The game isn't going anywhere.
