Nobody has claimed to have it - pre-orders would be eligible, IIRC, the 25th or so if they had no lapses.
It might not be in game yet, and the developers have released nothing about the next vet rewards so far.
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For the record preorder/headstart people should NOT have any advantage over people who started April 28, 2004. The Devs' own Vet Award FAQ confirms that. But of course when has the Vet Award system ever really followed its own rules? 
There continues to be random people who get awarded Vet awards WEEKS ahead of when ANYONE should be able to get them. Often those lucky people will "spill the beans" about them here on the forums. Of course the Devs would have already had to put the newest Vet Awards into the game for that to happen. There have been times when the Devs were late in putting the newest ones in the game and there was no "advanced warning" what they were going to be until just about the time they were suppose to happen.
With Going Rogue in full swing development it's possible the Devs might be relatively late in putting the next ones into the game again. Either that or the people who usually get the new ones too early just haven't shouted out yet. 
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Either that or the people who usually get the new ones too early just haven't shouted out yet.
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Anyway it's never been a question of "fair" or "unfair". It's a question of established rules. One more time I'm not directly upset at any one player who has this happen to them. As you say players like you are not actively trying to do anything wrong by this.
I just happen to be a stickler for a game following its OWN rules. The 69th month anniversary of this game is January 28th. According to the Vet System FAQ of this game NO ONE should have that award before that date. The single most important aspect of a system that grant awards based on the amount of TIME a player has been subscribed to a game is keeping an accurate count of the precise time involved. How can any of us have any faith or trust in the system as it is now? If this game can't even keep track of something as elemental as that it deserves someone like me harping on it every 3 months. It's very much the least I could do so becoming "spiritually exhausted" is not something I worry about is this case.
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From the looks of it, vet rewards are gonna be on a kind of weird bell curve. They want to reward long-time players, but not to the point of putting them significantly ahead of newer ones, so the newly introduced rewards are probably going to be less fancy than the ones before.
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From the looks of it, vet rewards are gonna be on a kind of weird bell curve. They want to reward long-time players, but not to the point of putting them significantly ahead of newer ones, so the newly introduced rewards are probably going to be less fancy than the ones before.
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I think the devs are actively taking steps to confound the pigg divers. This would include things like not putting the vet badges into the live release until they're ready to announce them, or putting a really crappy click stealth power that wears off if you move into the code just before the release of the "ninja" booster pack.
The former method would prevent the info becoming public early by both deliberately examining the game files in a EULA-breaking way, or accidentally, by merely receiving the rewards early due to a system error.
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Someone has to have them and or/seen them as I will be near the new ones soon and I haven't seen anything yet. Who has the 69 Month Vet award or beyond? It'd be nice to know. Especially since they wait til the last minute to announce what they are and only after its been leaked. So maybe we can push the announcement? Anyway, curiosity has the best of me. What say anyone?
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