Attention people who claim the "early access is a perk, a gift, a benefit, that isn't required and was never promised!"
I know for a FACT that a lot of people pre-ordered for early access.
I know for a FACT that pre-orders are instrumental to the video game industry because it allows the developers to ascertain how many to make and how many to accommodate for.
And I know for a FACT that employees and automated systems can fail. I work for GameStop and the employee had to manually put in a sku code for a pre-order code to print. If you pre-ordered with some newbie employee then I guarantee you didn't get your code.
It's absolutely absurd to release an early access this way.
I'm not angry because I'm not playing. I'm angry because my friends and guild mates are and they're going to be in different zones then I when I start to play.
As far as I'm concerned, I PAID for my early access when I pre-ordered it.
Early access isn't a gift or something that wasn't promised--it's the opposite. Early Access was a marketing tool to promote sales. Early Access was an advertisement.