Service accounts issue, a clarification...

[Aurongroove]

To apologize to our loyal fans who may not have been able to login or create characters during early access and the days immediately following launch, the development and operations teams are currently considering providing all player accounts with an additional seven days to their free trials. This includes non-legacy players from 1.0, who will be given new seven-day free trials. Trial extensions will be awarded after the aforementioned server maintenance on Wednesday. Details on the trial extension, including the extension period, will be released in a separate post as soon as they have been solidified.

Now that I re-read this section, I feel a very encouraging irony coming on telling me that those who are suffering from the split service account problem will certainly be able to use those 7 days on their original, correct account for certain.

The only method thus far of gaining access to play time was through entering codes onto service accounts. (for beta, for EA and for the game itself)
Not only would it be very unusual for SE to dish out these 7 days through any method other then code redemption, it would be equally unusual for users to not be able to apply these days to any service account of their choosing (even accidentally to yet another, newer service account *tragic-lol*)

In a way the problem we're suffering from is proof that there is no system in place for affixing days to a particular Service account automatically and/or per common sense.

It would be really very unlikely that SE dish out these extra days in any greatly different fashion to what they did for EA or for the game itself.


Further reasoning; what good would the 7 days be to any 1.0 player if they couldn't be applied to the same service account that the Beta 4 and early access was on?
What good too, would the 7 days extra play be to any player caught still waiting for a digital copy?
No good, that's what!

The service accounts of those groups will be identical to our "service account 1"s; characters from beta 4 & early access lying inactive.
And like those accounts I imagine all we need to do is register our codes 'properly' i.e., apply the codes in the manner we should have applied our game codes; onto our own B4/EA service accounts.

They would literally have to bend over backward to make it not work since our current inactive service accounts with our B4/AE characters in them is no different to those of the other service accounts that the 7 days extra trial is targeting.

...and bam! A week's grace to sort out the split account problem.