So I'll ask this here and see if anyone here knows. I'd probably ask on the lodestone forum but square's got it down at the moment.

So over last weekend's beta I started my character and gained, I feel, a respectable number of levels (just shy of 60 total, I think). While it wouldn't be a huge setback since that was just one weekend of playing, I would prefer not to start a new character. However, I do seem to recall reading somewhere that when you put in a promo code in FF14, your existing characters don't get the promo item, all subsequent characters do.

So, does anyone know if I'll have to start a new character to get my preorder bonuses, or when I get the digital collectors edition upgrade? (I would have gotten the collectors edition in the first place, but all the online stores I looked at either sold out of the ps3 collectors edition as soon as they listed it, or never bothered listing it in the first place. And I wanted some of that physical stuff that came with it, too.) And would I have to if I were to, say, acquire an unused code for an onion helm?