Interesting how long it takes people to jump at each others throats :x

On the subject: The method SE used might be money grabbing but let's consider for a moment that they are producing this game to also make just that: money.
Can't blame them to charge for such a service.
The argument that you got seperated from your friends is only half-valid too if you ask me because this was a Beta Phase and not wiping the character data completely was already a nod in our direction from SE. Dremic had a point saying people were too impatient to wait until character generation on a specific server opened again, granted SE's communication about opening/closing chargen really sucked tho but they were too busy ignoring 3102 and 90000 i think