So. What's First?

[Kirito]

From what I remember, we did pop where the trailer did. Except it was only as a short cutscene and then it puts us on the boat just like everyone else before handing over control of the character (in the city dictated by what class we chose at that log-in, not what we last logged off as).

I think this is all we're getting, and I don't foresee it changing in beta4, early access, or launch.

what I remember (from the ul'dah opening) was you have the old dream with "think... etc", you fight the evil mage guy with your character job, and you wake up on the cart... I don't remember any entering the cart or boat thing... but to be fair I left my character in the inn room and I didn't complete the story in 1.0... would be interesting if they only set it for that... so only ppl who finished the story and thus went to the battle field was teleported... so if you left you character in the inn room during the battle, you weren't in need to be sent to the future so you didn't get teleported... but then there is the issue of how you got the mark on the back... or maybe I just didn't notice getting in the cart when I saw it...