Recruit-a-friend Oversight

[TheRogueX]

Not entirely related to this thread but I think the bigger oversight is the fact that you can "recruit" accounts that already exist.
I recruited an account that was created 2.5 years ago and got my chocobo. Makes perfect sense.

?? How? I didn't think the code worked on existing accounts. Was it an account that had never paid a subscription fee?

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Sorry man, I've played on MMOs for a long, long time, and this entire excuse is just that: an excuse. It doesn't fly. To offer a recruitment path but make it impossible for a decent portion of the playerbase to use it is just ignorance and bad/poorly thought out design.