Character Wipe

[Geist]

The allocation of certs, resources and battle rank are often affected by bugs and exploits during the Betas. It only makes sense that they would wipe characters before they have to worry about people investing actual money into characters, thus making it impossible to wipe the characters again.

[Kipper]

They better wipe closed beta characters

Firstly because some people have unlocks that were granted at different times whilst others do not; and everyone should only have what they've bought or earned when the game starts.

Secondly because I've been testing the game for myself as well as SOE, I've not put much thought into allocating my certs and have spread them across multiple classes/vehicles to test. At the start of the real game, I'll probably want to cert up the classes I've enjoyed the most and intend to use the most.

Open beta is practically release anyway, so they won't wipe there. The only difference between open beta and full release most likely is that it won't be listed for download on steam etc, just via the client download on the main site. Most of the major changes will happen while its closed.