On what date will we be able to purchase character slots?

I know they said "summer" but that is very vague. I've collected materials and weapons for my waiting-in-GW-heaven-to-be-born ranger, but I'm just waiting to slap $10 in anet's grimey, cold hands so I can have my ranger. so... any ideas?

I'll cry and cry some more if they make us wait til Chapter 3 (which has no interest for me at this point)

same here i would like the exact date and how youll be able to purchase these slots ie direct or third party as i want to buy 3-4 slots alrdy as all slots full alrdy

Me too, I have my upcoming assassin all set for runes and weapons, now all I need is a slot to make him.

Sometime in summer is vague.

"Soon."

AKA "When it's done."

I don't believe they have specified when it will be available more specifically than the "this summer" quote I seem to remember hearing, which could mean pretty much anytime between now and the offical calander first day of fall.

I don't think it will take them more than another month, but I have no way of knowing of course. There could be a lot of issues to iron out regarding setting up the payment and keys and such with the publisher.

I'm not in a hurry, but I would like to try a PvE assassin one of these days, and I'm not deleting any of my current characters to make one.

I bet Anet has staff working on several projects so it might be better promise shady ETA and deliver slots in time, rather than give exact day and then change it every now and then.

they were vague about it probably cause they didnt know for sure themselves :P but i'll come in the summer no doubt.

yeah, they got hundreds of bugs to sort out and they gotta improve storage like they said they would. -they'll also need to make it able to buy keys online ect.

summer sometime i recon means july/june, shouldnt be too long.

SF?

maybe sept 21

I have nothing constructive to add. I just want to point out that your love-hate relationship with ArenaNet is amusing.

That was what I was thinking. :P

I think this can go on the list along with the Auction House, Actual Guild Wide Storage, and some other thing I talked about once...

Ch 9.

I enjoy the game, but I hate the company. The game is fun, overall well made, and an good way to waste time... the company I hate because of the Factions fiasco, and being lied to by their customer service dept and Gaile Gray herself emailing me and telling me I'm SOL even tho they screwed up, and she and her company really have no intentions of doing the right thing.

If that's amusing, then cool. enjoy the laughs. I don't care.

What does that mean?

I do agree that Fractions is.. bit.. buggy.. especially if you played during headstart and used /bug every hour or so.

Yep, summer doesn't end 'til Sept. sometime.

It means I'm Snickelfritz Outta Luck.... if you get my drift...

The bugs don't bug me <no pun intended> What pissed me off about the Factions fiasco was I preordered the Collector's edition and got lied to and the run around by anet and ncsoft. And finally, the "lovely" Gail herself emailed me and basically said nothing she can do and she's not even gonna try - so I'm SOL.

SOL = "Sure" Outta Luck ....

... note: "Sure" is most commonly replaced with another word that begins with S, and rhymes with "fit". Which, if you still are unsure what i'm talking about: just be content in not knowing at that point

EDIT: Aw, beat to it

she personally took the time to tell you there was nothing she could personally do and you get pissed at her.

what did you expect her to do anyway?
pull one out of somewhere and hand it to you?

she has no control over it so why blame her for something like that?

ingrate

*cue rant*
After getting the run around from several employees, I finally got forwarded to a manager. Gaile happened to be that manager. What happened is I pre-ordered the CE, when I found out it was being delayed, I was concerned about my headstart characters. I emailed NC Soft and the rep told me the only way to keep my characters would be to buy the regular edition. That all accounts without the retail key would lose their Headstart characters on May 1st. So I ran to the store and picked up a copy of regular Factions. I get home, and find out that Anet has changed their mind. Well, now I'm stuck with a version of Factions I didn't want, and there is jack I can do about it. I email NC Soft again, and they apologised and offered to have management contact me to see if there was anything they could do. Gaile gave me this sob story about how she can't even play CE, and it's not her fault I was misinformed, and there is nothing she can do except let to try to prevent future incidents.

All I wanted was the ability to send $20 to NC Soft/Anet, get my updated key, book, CD, etc, and dragon. But No.

(and I have all this saved in my email inbox, so hopefully I'll get in touch with someone who CAN help, and get this overwith.) *end rant*

you honestly thought that would happen? Did you expect them to rip open a box and mail you the stuff even though there were no boxes to be opened? Not to mention that they probably have no means to take your money, issue and ship the items. Also, what would have been stopping you from selling that key? Even if you didn't, they would have to offer that ability to other people, which would cause people to buy a key for only $20 that allows full access of a $70 product. I'm sure you can see the potential for abuse. You would basically end up with 2 full keys for $70.

and how many thousand hours would you lose if they had been deleted?

ohh yessss..........it was a headstart WEEKEND EVENT

you might have lost the time spent on a single weekend............the horror of that big a loss