Yeah it would've been less frustrating if they did the "early access" at the start of the week so everyone could hop on during the weekend.

I hope next expansion people will massively change their minds about buying into early access, because it's such a stupid feature for a game that's already a €50 with a paid subscription on top, completely destroying everything that made expansion launches great (world firsts, everyone playing together, not having to deal with massive story spoilers on social media).

But I'm afraid too many people will simply not care and still shell out for a couple of days extra.