The game shouldn't crash on load if the servers are down.

[EVILoHOMER]

Right now you can click play if they're down, the game will load to 48% and then it crashes and bring up some dumb generic message in the Browser. To the average user they wont know what this means, I didn't know what it meant till I went to the forums, the average user will just uninstall the game with frustration.

This needs to be fixed for launch as we all know the servers will be even more unstable. You need to give players more feedback on the status of the servers and either need to not allow them to click play or allow the game to load so you can see server status.