Sure..... Thousands of Customers reporting the same (at times game-breaking) issues within Minutes after Release.... is just "Anecdotal" lol
Sorry, that sounds (just a general statement) almost delusional to the point of being downright bizarre.
The general condition this title was in ever since the untested September Update requires no comment really. It speaks for itself.
Not really. Your "thousands" figures are just flawed because in no way they represent an accurate picture of the state of the game and much less the overall perception of all players. It is as flawed as the title of the petition referring to the "community".
If the actual overall state of the game was as "game broken" as you suggest you would have seen at the very least some factual indications of unusual and clearly localized concurrency drops that we can tie to this update. But so far there is no such indication. Further you have the testimony of many commanders in this thread and others in this same forum suggesting the situation is not as game breaking at all.
Another example: Who are we to believe? The 50 upvotes this thread Open Letter OP got? Or the 73 upvotes
this other thread "Open Letter" OP got?
etc.
I mean, we can spend another 100 pages bringing in examples for each argument if you wish. The conversation would be fruitless. The only real bottom line that would confirm the game is significantly broken or not in actuality would be some factual indicators such as actual player concurrency droping due to inability to play or frustration etc. Or sales droping, or similar. Are there bugs? Sure. Is the game "broken" due to those? Not at all, at least so far. Claiming "the game is broken" is just noise, and personal perceptions and agendas, including the ones in this thread linked Open Letter.