The lag in game makes it not only impossible to chat at any length but when you click to harvest something, it waits for 5-8mins then finally does it....same with opening bags and loging out.
Some are saying its all the people chatting...others say some people are using a totem exploit...not sure which it is. Just surprised none of the devs have commented on it yet...
This is the norm, it's all planned you see. It's designed to weed out the whining, impatient folk who have nothing better to do then state the bleeding obvious and claim the launch is a "fail".