Quote Originally Posted by Panties View Post
All throughout alpha, we've been putting our trust into Citan and the PG team to make good on the promise of not wiping our skills. As alpha players, we made a deal with you guys to test the game and report bugs in exchange for keeping our hard-earned skills.
I'm pretty sure the EULA never guaranteed keeping every skill. In fact, it says that they might need to patch or reset things for game balance.
There might be major updates to some skills that warrant a reset. Or there might be a crafting skill that is proven to unbalance the early economy at higher levels.

That said, I seriously doubt they plan to reset 49% of all skills and are being deceptive just to fool people into playing the game for free during Alpha.