They are partly because of AFK’ers, so you’re wrong.
You mention seedy but i don’t think you quite understand the definition of the word.
When someone is breaking the TOS/EULA in plain sight, they get reported. Simple. When we report someone breaking the rules, we’re not the ones doing anything wrong. If people didn’t exploit the AFK mechanics there would be no need for anyone to report them. Get it?
The studio developing the game is an Amazon ‘division’. They belong to Amazon but they won’t get more funding just by snapping their fingers.
There’s this thing called a hierarchy and Amazon (Like many other companies) uses a hierarchical structure instead of a flat organizational structure, where everyone answers to someone above them, and everything has to go through the ‘chain of command’ so to speak.
For instance. If the guys in marketing need more money for their ad strategy or sales strategy, they need to send a request to the higher ups. They can’t just go to the bank and take money without approval, and in some cases, the higher ups can say -no- you’re not getting more money. Work with what you have. I can testify to that because it happened to my team more than once in the past.
You’ve claimed to have worked in the ‘industry’ and that you’ve ‘built and run lots of MMOs’ but you don’t even know how a company is structured… This is yet another indicator that you have absolutely no clue.
No, i’m not going to defend someone who exploits a game mechanic and feature, holding the queue hostage and preventing people from logging on, when under normal circumstances they’d be booted for being AFK for too long. Pray i don’t spot you using a macro, because if i do, i’m reporting you. 
Free transfers are coming.
Here’s yet another indicator that shows you having no clue.
You can predict the amount of players from pre-orders, but only from pre-orders. You cannot predict launch day sales. That is literally impossible to do.
No. Quality assurance is for making sure the game works, and they haven’t failed on that part as the game works quite well. Control and Testing was done by alpha testers and beta testers along with paid testers. Hence the game got delayed multiple times, so they could improve it.
The queues are not a result of a lack of testing, nor quality control. It’s because people are ignorant and blind. They picked a high pop server rather than a low-medium pop server and expected no queues.
These people have never experienced actual queue issues unless they played WoW when it released, or the original FFXIV and many other past MMORPGs.
The only ones in the wrong here, are AFK exploiters and people like you who defend them.
I swear, if i didn’t know better, i’d think you’re Derek Smart behind that forum name… Which would explain quite a lot actually…
