Quote Originally Posted by Canadane View Post
If they start giving away preorder bonus items after the fact, why bother preordering?
Yeah people like us that are currently playing may do so, but someone not currently subbed that may be on the fence coming back for an expansion, the preorder items may push them over to the sale side. If it's known that the items would be otherwise available again, they may not bother preordering and may not order at all after the pre-release hype dies off.
This has to be an incredibly small amount of players agaisnt the amount who just want, like, the game.

So small infact that I don't see any reason not to have pre-order items available again, hell you can buy the digital collectors edition stuff separate, just throw the earrings into that and call it a day.