Hmm ... open beta spot sounds nice. Never really cared about most of the silly in-game items you can get via collectors editions.
Yeah, not happy about GOA running things either, though didn't find them as bad as people said. But have gotten used to live Customer Support nowadays, so hope they"ll do it this time instead of the stupid rightnow website. I remember first time I played AO (Anarchy Online); they actually had Greeters, they'd pop up when playing a new char on a new account and talk to you a bit and you could ask all sorts of questions, was really nice. The support persons from CoH were also nice, had to get help a few times with mobs stuck in the floors/ceiling.
Not sure about playing US, main problem is the difference in hours, so there"d be less people on when we play (mostly kids
). Not sure how PvP and the PvP zone will turn out, but if there are raids and stuff it could be harder to join for us on US servers. But we wouldn't have to wait for ages on patches and get live CSRs.