considering the PC and PS3 were always planned as a same time release for ARR. Sending out PC full ver to customers and PS3 beta testers at the same time does not match up at all. Considering it's also 2-3 months prior to goes on sale which both PC and PS3 are listed as the same sale start time.

I am not grasping at anything that is just directly how I see it. I am not one to defend SE at random, and as I said I do easily see how people would expect 1 month based on this. Also based on people who left yes as you said will not want to pay to see if it's better, which I also stated I agreed with you on in like my first post.

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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).



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.



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.



SE defense force in action.