Originally Posted by
Lucky_
Bag space, some may have bought even though most denied it. Character slots came with pre-orders, CEs (I recall getting at least one in NF alone), and then many of us had two accounts, totaling just enough slots to have one of every class + PvP slot across two accounts. Those who didn't usually didn't care much for PvE, meaning they had free slots for PvP character anyway.
There was far more buying of skills packs for second accounts to get PvP characters up to speed. I remember a LOT of that going during NF.