So I have bought the game - I have a few days off to try and play it but yes ...

Installed Christmas Day morning by 11am.

I expected a few patches ...

12 hours downloading - 12 hours? What was on the DVD I *paid* for?

And so to register an account.

Yup.

Succesive crashes or "Service Unavailable" messages.

I have retyped certain bits maybe 20 times.

Point being - this so sucks. I have a full time job and this is my only chance to have a bit of a play with a new game. And its getting cowed up due to the usual incompetencies in the MMO world.

I can't tell you how angry I am.