I don't know if they were changed before release or not (prove what you say), but I can understand why they have those stats and the newer items were more powerful. Balance. When the game was released, giving a select group of people max items right off the bat would have been unbalancing, when the items for japan etc came into the game, people had already been playing for quite some time so those items were kept inline with currently available max items, otherwise the new players would have been at a disadvantage. I see no need to suddenly bump up the american/european preorder items at this stage in the game.
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