So 1.0 owners have to start paying the monthly fee immediately?

[Abriael]

distribute was meant as send out, most likely to store being as it's 2-3 months before it goes on sale on their chart. (unless they are giving people early access who purchased 1.0 which they are not, but I could maybe see how you would think that)

Again, stores have nothing to do with it. You're grasping at straws in order to prove a false but convenient point.

The "distribution" term is applied both to the PC client and the PS3 beta, which clearly means it's not referring to stores. You don't send betas to stores.

As further evidence, there's the Japanese original document, that uses the verb 配布 (Haifu), while distribution of goods to shops has a specific verb in Japanese, which is 配達 (Haitatsu).

Considering the people who quit also probably never read this which is the only few people could interpret it as you have because it's wrong and never was meant as what you think it did. Likely would be expecting nothing except maybe 30 days.

The people who quit have been told over and over by those that didn't that they'd get a free period, on forums, on websites and such. Every time someone came up with a skeptical remark, not knowing if he'd try the game or not, you'd see someone commenting "don't worry, you'll get X free months to try it out".

Whether you interpret it as one free month or multiple it doesn't really matter. What matters is that a lot of people are expecting at the very least one free month, and the word, due to SE's own words (and it isn't just limited to that one document, it was said quite a lot) went around a lot.

$ 10, $20, $30....whatever. Not much to pay for a quality game. Besides, a lot of people are very excited about the release of the game. I don't think that many people at this point give a rats ass about a trial period, they really want to just play the game already. The people who always want stuff for free are the ones that will probably abandon the game first anyway and move on to the next game that offers them free gameplay so their cheap asses never have to pay for playing.

In this case we can't really say that. With 1.0's experience we can't really blame people for being skeptical and for wanting to try the game extensively before putting money into it. Lost trust must be regained.

I don't really get it. How is Abriael wrong in this? Heck, if anyone knows that I would be the first one to call Abriael out for being wrong, it's him. (We battle on these forums almost any chance we get). But in this case, he seems to be right. How exactly does early access = free trial? It's not the same.

SE defense force in action.