I can't believe I just read 5 pages of people debating whether this launch is bad or not. You guys are fucking retards if you think this isn't the worst MMO launch in at least 5 years. EVERY GAME that is brought up as 'had a bad launch' was better than this shit. SWTOR? I was playing it fine. Rift? I was like level 30 the first day. Even WoW, only a FEW servers were fucked, I was on Medivh, and we had spurts of intense lag, but we were playing right at launch with only minimal downtime over the course of the first month,a nd got a lot of free gametime out of it.
This shit? Friends can't even fucking play on the same server as me, an inexusable design choice in the first place, and then I can't play because they have more emergency maint than playable time.
The game is fun but you're an apologist of the worst order if you're trying to convince anyone that this is acceptable shit.