I know things can get a bit lost in these types of threads and confused ...I was myself re: character slots
So after asking about the free specialisation feat that we get as a member ....the answer as I understand it is: YES it's going to be part of the membership deal, starting at the lowest time period (ie 30days) ... what is changing is HOW you go about getting on the new character ...ie not having to go to the trainer to get it, but they haven't detailed the new method yet.
And no change to the ones we currently have.