Quote Originally Posted by Teloc View Post
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.
Who told you to use pre-order codes that aren't legally yours? If SE found out about it (such as someone else buying the game you cancelled and then going to SE about their "faulty" code), best case scenario would probably have you lose the items. Worst case, they could ban you for using stolen codes. I would NEVER suggest anyone do anything like this and very much hope no one ever does. It just isn't worth it o.O

But back on topic, I'm going to be getting the new ARR CE via pre-order, simply because I want the physical stuff, but I'd happily spend another $5-$10 for my 2nd account to have the pre-order stuff too if that was an option. I hope they at least consider bringing this option in and the sooner, the better.