(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); To make up for all of the issues that early adopters have had to deal with, Founders -- which is to say, anyone with Elite at the moment -- will be receiving a free 30-day extension to their membership "to ensure that every premium member receives their full money's worth."

Additionally, everyone now has until the end of November to sign up and become a Founder (as opposed to the November 13 deadline). That's reassuring for those who, like myself, were hoping to wait for the problems to be resolved before subscribing. And yes, even those who sign up later this month and become Founders will get the extra 30 days of Elite premium membership.

While it's unfortunate that Elite couldn't have launched more smoothly, giving everyone a free month is a nice gesture to make up for an issue that might end up being resolved in less than a week. Unfortunately, we still don't have an estimate for when everything will be working properly, but at least we can play online multiplayer to pass the time.

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Lol true, the card seems useless. But in actuality the code on the card lets you have founder status after the time when founder can't be obtained. Which means if you use the founder card code in July for example, you'd become a founder. And obviously using the code on the back of the Elite booklet in hardened or activating Elite in November will give you founder.