The funny thing about these "IT'S A BETA!!!!!" arguments is this: this was just a server stress test. The game, the code, pretty much everything was already finished. they were just making sure that their servers could handle the workload for launch day. Therefore; no major (or even minor) rewriting of code will be happening. If they still had 2-6 months before release and were actively bug-hunting, I could understand a wipe for the simple fact that there might actually be changes that would affect the character you made and how it functions. Not the case here. The game will go Gold in a week, that way they can make production demands for release day. But the whole code for the game is already finished by this point. This was just a stress test. Calling it a Beta, and then giving it the full weight of hunting for bugs/glitches and calling for code rewrites is absurd when we're a month away from release. It actually isn't unreasonable for our characters to carry over at this point. No; with that said, would I care if they wiped my character? No. But the argument still stands that the whole "IT'S A BETA!!!!!" reasoning is flawed with how advanced in production the game is. How things worked in regards to game mechanics and even character mechanics and design is carved in stone at this point. There would be no way to make production demands or their desired release day if they still had to finalize the code of the game. This post was conceived out of common sense and over 15 years of Beta testing various games amongst four different genres of video gaming.