There aren't "fixes" to overloaded servers. All of these down-times have been utter failures and wastes of time. The only solution is to expand capacity, which they absolutely will not do because they know that the population is going to plummet once players have to pay monthly. Notice how the Japanese servers are never down? That's because the game is not inherently buggy (and does not need patching/hot-fixing) and the problems are a lack of sufficient hardware.
To make matters worse, now we don't even have a queue. This is no early access - this is early frustration - frustration that should have been accounted for and resolved.
We've been treated pretty poorly for paying customers and apologizing for the inconvenience is not good enough. If things progress as they are, I will likely have my pre-order refunded, despite my enjoyment of the game and world.
Edited, Aug 25th 2013 1:03pm by Thodne