Post it someplace that doesn't disable the free download and try to charge you for access next time.

Don't blindly pre-order games then? You throw your money and often you lose most of what you thought you were paying for. Huge portions of the market swing around to check new games out then go back to what they're competent at. There's two ways for the companies to deal with this: spend too much and have to sell servers or set up for what they want to keep and initiate queues to keep the servers from being ruined by this clogging-by-entitlement-fools. I'd rather have a nice queue system than spend all my time loading then crashing because there are too many queued graphics running in a given area. That's just how it is, making a forum thread followed by a thousand idiots isn't going to change how money gets spent, it just makes everybody look stupid.

^^^ needs to be said about thirty billion times. You only get the PRE-ORDER color crystal until your payment for the full version of your choice is processed. I DO have an issue with EA/BW billing before the 20th, they've already got enough trouble in Europe and making people pay $5.00 for the opportunity to play before the 20th THEN requiring full payment from the Origin purchase people before they can log in is very suspect. Standard for EA but illegal none-the-less. Billing date says 20th, contractual obligation, refund our $5.00! (lol)