I see what you did there.
You get access to where the CE vendor IS... ie... the VIP lounge for 1m credits... you still cannot access what the CE vendor SELLS unless you purchased the CE... this was AGAIN confirmed in a dev post this morning.
Only 4 waves total for today. 3 waves are complete. If you don't get an email within a couple of hours (waves have been about 2 hours apart), I would do something else till tomorrow.
I don't think they will. Especially since there will be no achievement system like there is in wow. No 'points' to show off.
The current Codex is the achievement system.