firesilver

Yes - give it an hour or two and it will likely be opened. It is probably to stop their web servers from being overloaded with requests at once.

Yes correct, either way you will still get to fly it either now or eventually! :)

This is most likely just to ensure they don't get overloaded with web requests at once. It will be available shortly I expect. :)

Do you mean only on Open Beta patch? if so yes usually all new releases are bought to Open Beta first. I don't actually know many people who even bother playing the Stable release as it's always so far behind.