Aye, just want to repeat what has been said earlier: You have paid nothing for early access. It is a free bonus for buying something else. You can argue the case however you like to, but it was a free bonus. The cost of the bonus is exactly £0.00 on top of the money you spent on the pre-ordering of the game. If you were a Legacy player, then you had it already and arguing that you spent money on a pre-order because of the early access is stupid because you already had early access. You could then argue "but I paid to be a Legacy member" - you paid to play the game, and you got Legacy member status for free as a bonus. Bonus, bonus, bonus.

I love that the game is doing so freaking well that it has waaaaaaaay exceeded demand.

The only things I do agree on are that they could really use an additional server or two and that the communication could be better. I want to know what they're actually intending on doing, personally, but I don't think they'll ever give us that kind of information. I want to know how far apart the supply and demand is, and what they intend on doing about it. So far they haven't detailed any intentions at all. They've said they're trying to fix it, but what about the long term ramifications of having so many people want to play the game?

The one upside of all of this is once the server populations stabilise and everything is running smoothly again, it looks pretty likely that they are going to have those remaining members stick it out with FFXIV and that FFXIV will be turning a nice profit as they hover around capacity.