The lack of early start for people who bought v 1.0 is very poor judgement. A lot of people bought the CE and SE in 1.0 for the early release and sure we got to play a week early, but look how many left because of that. 3-7 Days of an early start is huge in a MMO. Most of the people who aren't Legacy are going to head to new servers and are now behind up to a week because why should they re-buy the game. I though SE wants its old players to return and try out the game again, those of us who are of a competitive nature don't want to return to a game and be behind everyone by a week.

I've been told to pre-order and register the code, then just cancel the pre-order later. This method while giving those of us non-legacy the pre-order bonus it also takes them away from new players. There is already a divide between legacy and non with a whole lot of "I'm better than you" from them. SE you need to stop making it a bigger divide or you will ruin your own community.

This is causing quite a few of my friends to not even want to give the game another chance, since a late start is massive in a mmo.