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[Omegakiyohime]

I have bad news guys. Read this http://imgur.com/fVppbjZ

Its from SE support chat. If you pre-order on PS3 you can ONLY Early access on Ps3.

Not to say that this is wrong, but I would rather wait for a community team member to confirm it as they were the ones that told us we could link the accounts for EA and play on both systems during it. Also, support has been wrong in the past with matters concerning the preorder/EA/Launch (i.e. when they said P4 characters wouldn't carry over to new accounts).

[khovel]

Not to say that this is wrong, but I would rather wait for a community team member to confirm it as they were the ones that told us we could link the accounts for EA and play on both systems during it. Also, support has been wrong in the past with matters concerning the preorder/EA/Launch (i.e. when they said P4 characters wouldn't carry over to new accounts).

this sounds right... but like you said, it would be best if someone from SE would pop in here and verify.

[Quixadhal]

Hmm.

I'm pretty sure I remember an official post that detailed the whole pre-order, CE rewards program, and it showed that to get early-access, you had to have 1.0 legacy status OR a valid pre-order. It also showed that you could NOT apply a PC pre-order to an existing 1.0 account.

When asked for clarification, it was stated that pre-ordering a PS3 game would qualify the account for early access AND that linking a PS3 game to a 1.0 account would allow you to play on either platform, interchangeably.

Now, in the wriggle room of the wording, you CAN intuit it to mean early access is not part of that interchangeability, but it sure was implied, and close enough to be brushing with false advertising. Close enough that a great many people may start demanding refunds if it turns out to be true.

While I love this game, Square-Enix has NOT been doing very well at redeeming their failure from 1.0 in this launch. The sheer void of no communication, combined with the Rube-Goldberg mechanics involved in this account management nonsense is not winning them any love.