Ok i can understand being ticked about not getting on when others are. Hell im still waiting, got my preorder on the 7th Dec. Now i wanted to play on first day of early access. Hell people i work with are playing, they got the pre-order the first day. But, fact is they said they would do a staggered approach to the early play. Yeah its lame, but on the flip side i get the feeling it will be a hella lot smoother than having everyone and there grandma jump on the server all at once. Now i see people going but it wont make a difference. actually it can, and this is why. (simple game development lecture) When the system comes up and they let an amount of people in that is a smaller, they are better able to spot issues with the code or server that could cause issues with performance. So they then go in make fixes, and let more people in rinse repeat. Now by doing this you allow for a player base to actually have a pre-order event. Or you can have them all jump through at once have a more likely chance of server failure, and spend the next 5 days crying how you cant get in because the servers broke, and they have to sort through way more data to try and isolate issues that could have been spotted more easily if a smaller number of people were involved. Now when the server opens to everyone it will probibly blow up, i will be shocked if it doesn't. But you will have had about 4-5 days early access to the game at least before the server-splosion. As for fairness, i didn't see anywhere a specific pre-order game play length now i could be wrong, there may be somewhere but i didn't see it, and if there is i get the feeling you will get the full documented length of pre-order play. now as a nicety they are letting people who have pre-ordered in advance, the chance to get in a bit earlier, kind of like points for airlines and junk like that, sort of a loyalty reward. I have pre-ordered many games, seen the early access be 3-days to a week or so, a four - five day access for all pre-orders seems more than fair
