So imagine a player buys the imperial edition ONLY for the 5 days headstart, he/she doesn't care about the imperial armor,

or the horse or anything else.. Then on the first day of pre-access, the server shuts down because of the load, the gameplay

is so laggy that it's almost unplayable with constant disconnects and queues to login.

So thats 1 days gone of 5, you're now down to 4 days, when you payed extra for 5 days.

Then on the 2nd day, the problems remains. Players constantly disconnecting and having login-queues, with sporadic

"server down" or "server maintenence".. Then you have 2 days gone from your 5 days.

Then on the 3rd day, a new batch of players comes in, the ones with 3day headstart, and the servers gets more problems

keeping up with the amount of logins. DC's and queues are a constant. Now you have 2 days left of possibly stable gameplay

without DC's and queues.

So lets hypothetically say that the worst happens, Zinemax "weren't ready" despite all headsup about the incoming rush...through

sales-numbers of pre-orders - like a person that doesn't see the barndoor until it hits him in the face.

What then ?. A person who spend extra money for 5 days headstart, pretty much got nothing out of it since the servers weren't prepared

or ready for the amount of players. Would you delay the games release to make up for the lost 5day headstart?.

You can buy upgrade for the imperial armor anyday after release. The horse is a joke simply because it offers nothing special.

The only thing UNIQUE is the 5day headstart, and if this hypothetical problem occurs, then you've just removed the only thing

unique about the pre-order - the only thing that CANNOT be bought or upgraded to after launch.

So if the worst came to happen, how would you make it up to the players who spend those extra $ simply for the headstart ?.

After having played 2 very buggy beta's. i've gone from "im SO buying ESO preorder" to .... i'll think about it.

And after doing some checking up's on facts, the headstart is the only carrot for me - hence my worries.

If someone preorders Imperial Edition only for the 5 days headstart, then he needs a bigger monitor since preordering Standard Edition also gives a 5 days headstart for less mullah.

You don't need the IE for Earl Access, just Pre Order at the same price as normal game.

Are you a savant and already know what will happen? Or want the game to fail for personal reasons?

Then they shouldn't have preordered the Imperial Edition for something that also comes with a standard edition preorder.

And the unique part is not unique because the early access come with explorer pack from preordering, so anyone buying ie will have to blame itself if they do not want the perks with it.

Also IE is not supposed to be unique the collectors edition is and tjat is the physical version you buy for alot more and is sometimes confused with digital ie.

Hope this helped you and you will get standard edition with 5day headstart instead of wasting your money on something you do not want.

You forgot to mention the launcher issues that delete your install folder every time you run it, so you'll be there downloading for part of that time too unless it's fixed. And also anyone who pre-orders gets a 5 day head start.

If that happens that means that alot more than 4 million people preordered the game, we already had a beta with such amount of people testing the game, and there were no login queues...