SWTOR

[sam, an eggplant]

It does seem plausible, yes.

[eldaec]

They picked Dec 20th, because they are only 90% ready but dozens of people at EA have 'release in 2011' in their performance objectives.

You guys are still obsessed with Diablo to an absurd degree.

[Reg]

Obsessed? Bah!  I've already preordered my lifetime subscription!

[Outlawedprod]

http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=31564

Players can freely explore many areas in the game, including clubs that depict scantily clad female dancers with exposed cleavage; some sequences include dialogue with sexual innuendo (e.g., “An hour. I think I'm insulted. We'll need the whole night,” “I'll be sure to make conjugal visits,” and “Come, dear, let's forgo the nuptials and proceed to the honeymoon.”).

And people were worried it might not live up to the romantic flair of Mass Effect =p

[PalmTrees]

Dec 20th? That's a terrible time for me. I'll have it for a couple days then on 23rd or so it's off to visit family for the holiday week. And none of them have a decent gaming rig, not that I'll have much time to sit by myself and play an mmo. Just enough time to get started and hooked, then have it snatched away.

[fuser]

Wow, I really feel bad for anyone working at Bioware(even Austin). No doubt its going to be all hands on deck for Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa/anything else you believe in.

[eldaec]

Dec 20th? That's a terrible time for me. I'll have it for a couple days then on 23rd or so it's off to visit family for the holiday week. And none of them have a decent gaming rig, not that I'll have much time to sit by myself and play an mmo. Just enough time to get started and hooked, then have it snatched away.

Pretty sure it will still be there when you get back.

[K9]

Dec 20th? That's a terrible time for me. I'll have it for a couple days then on 23rd or so it's off to visit family for the holiday week. And none of them have a decent gaming rig, not that I'll have much time to sit by myself and play an mmo. Just enough time to get started and hooked, then have it snatched away.

Priorities...

[sam, an eggplant]

Wow, I really feel bad for anyone working at Bioware(even Austin). No doubt its going to be all hands on deck for Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa/anything else you believe in.

They'll probably be crunching until Q2 2012.

[Cyrrex]

Great...I have  a new position in finance, so that's the week where we do all of our year-end closing.  Was hoping it was coming out a few weeks sooner.  Oh well, guess I'll have to catch up between Christmas and NYs.

[eldaec]

The words “damn” and “hell” can be heard in dialogue throughout the game.

Also, 'exposed cleavage'? I know Americans, like everyone, get bugs up their asses about weird shit, but exposed cleavage? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's going on here, but isn't exposed cleavage something you see on the street pretty much every day?

[koro]

The words “damn” and “hell” can be heard in dialogue throughout the game.

Also, 'exposed cleavage'? I know Americans, like everyone, get bugs up their asses about weird shit, but exposed cleavage? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's going on here, but isn't exposed cleavage something you see on the street pretty much every day?

And TOR has exposed cleavage in all of, like, one piece of clothing.

[Nebu]

Dec 20th!  Yay!  I'll be between semesters and able to catass like a pro.

I'm 19 again. 

[MuffinMan]

I'll be in Hawaii for 10 days and NYC for 5 days during that time. The game can wait.

[luckton]

I wonder if the early-access is like, really super early or just a couple days...

[MuffinMan]

Nebu, you post deleter!

I'm wondering the same thing about the early start. I think I'm leaving on the 18th so it probably wouldn't be worth it for me.

[Nebu]

Nebu, you post deleter!

I was just experiencing some jealous outrage.  I'm envious that you'll be in Hawaii and NYC over the holidays.  Sounds like a great set of trips.

[eldaec]

Deleting posts is a crime against page count.

Burn the heretic!

[Merusk]

The words “damn” and “hell” can be heard in dialogue throughout the game.

Also, 'exposed cleavage'? I know Americans, like everyone, get bugs up their asses about weird shit, but exposed cleavage? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's going on here, but isn't exposed cleavage something you see on the street pretty much every day?

Breasts can kill, man.  And if youre with your kids on the street you can cover their eyes so they don't see that slut showing off skin.

[Sky]

And if youre with your kids on the street you can cover their eyes so they don't see that slut showing off skin.

That sounds dangerously close to Satan's clever plan to destroy our youth, called 'parental responsibility'. Please report to your local indoctrination center for reprogramming.

For future reference, your child is a precious angel who should never have to gaze upon the naked flesh of a woman and that whore should be put away for at least public lewdness, if not prostitution and endangering the welfare of a minor!

[Sjofn]

Damn, we're almost certainly going to be in NJ for Christmas when this releases. 

EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE LEVEL AWESOME WHILE WE'RE STILL LEVEL BULLSHIT WAAAAAAAAH

[Amaron]

Every Bioware employee just realized that they'll be working through Christmas this year.  It might have been good to launch the week before, stores are already a madhouse during that time.  Now add nerds on top of it?  Critical mass.

^This.   First time I'll be picking up my pre-order at midnight to AVOID a crowd.

[Fordel]

Damn, we're almost certainly going to be in NJ for Christmas when this releases. 

EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE LEVEL AWESOME WHILE WE'RE STILL LEVEL BULLSHIT WAAAAAAAAH

Oh you know I don't buy my MMO's till at least a few weeks in, you'll be fine!

[Shatter]

Like any of you buy MMO's anymore lol

[TripleDES]

Reading the last few posts, I take it the game's not ready yet? (WHAT A SURPRISE!)

I think I'll sit this out until spring 2012. Was burned once already with a Star Wars MMO.

[Nebu]

Like any of you buy MMO's anymore lol

I buy almost all of them.  It's like a disorder.

[ghost]

I'm not sure why I bough this one. It was pretty goddamned stupid of me.

[kildorn]

I eagerly await next week's "D3 open beta starts Dec 15th!" email.

This is a horrible release date for the Inf/Ops people though. Dear lord. It's Y2K all over again. I guess family vacations may make opening week a bit lighter on the auth servers, but probably not.

[Tannhauser]

I pre-ordered today and have everything ready to go.   

[Fabricated]

Man, do I really need to pre-order this to get it? I never pre-ordered WoW nor any of its expansions; I just went to a rural Walmart at midnight and bought my copy with like 5-6 other people who had the same idea.

[Reg]

Chances are I won't be around much between the 20th and New Years either. Maybe this is another attempt to ramp up the number of users gradually. I wonder just how much before the 20th preorder players will be allowed in?

[Evildrider]

Chances are I won't be around much between the 20th and New Years either. Maybe this is another attempt to ramp up the number of users gradually. I wonder just how much before the 20th preorder players will be allowed in?

They've been saying days but not weeks.  So that could be anything from 1-13 days before the 20th.  They've been saying it depends on how many units they have sold.  They have also reiterated, again, that supplies are limited.  Most places are sold out of CE copies and they have been sold out on the DDE version for awhile now.

[Margalis]

I would bet large amounts of money that the release date was chosen with "what's the latest we can possibly release this and still make Christmas?"

[Sky]

I would bet large amounts of money that the release date was chosen with "what's the latest we can possibly release this and still make Christmas?"

Not taking that bet.

[luckton]