Friend Recruitment Code?

[Forty-Fathoms]

So, does it have to be a brand new service account? Or can it include someone who had a service account but left the game and the Recruit Campaign was an incentive for them to come back to friends and the game? Does that not count towards recruitment? Because for my friend, he left the game for awhile, has inactive subscription, but a service account still, but I was trying to get him to join the game again with the Friend Recruitment thing and there's no option for the code to be placed for him. Just a standard 'Pay here sign here' dealie.

[mbncd]

So, does it have to be a brand new service account? Or can it include someone who had a service account but left the game and the Recruit Campaign was an incentive for them to come back to friends and the game? Does that not count towards recruitment? Because for my friend, he left the game for awhile, has inactive subscription, but a service account still, but I was trying to get him to join the game again with the Friend Recruitment thing and there's no option for the code to be placed for him. Just a standard 'Pay here sign here' dealie.

It doesn't have to be a new account but it does have to be one that hasn't paid anything yet.

If he played and then stopped before subscriptions were introduced in 1.xx, it'll work. If he paid for even one month, it won't. Also if he started playing more recently but quit before his free trial was up it'll work.