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Early Game Access* for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ is only a few days away! Starting December 13, 2011, The Old Republic will begin emailing invitations to start your Early Game Access. Invitations will be sent throughout the Early Game Access period offering rolling access to the game in the order in which you redeemed your Pre-Order Code, so be sure to check your email inbox!

To ensure that players can get into the game as quickly as possible when their Early Game Access begins, we are now allowing everyone who has redeemed a Pre-Order Code at our Code Redemption Center to pre-load the game to their computer.

In order to download the game client before Early Game Access begins, you need have already logged into your account and redeemed your Pre-Order Code. Once you have done this, you can download the game client by clicking on “My Account” in the upper-right of the window and then click “Pre-Order.” On your Pre-Order page, click the large button that says “Download Game Client” to begin download of the game!

If you participated in our recent Beta Testing Weekend between November 25th and 28th and still have the game client installed, you will be able to patch this client instead of re-installing by simply launching your client, logging in and allowing the download to complete. If you did not participate in the November 25th – 28th Beta Weekend, first uninstall the Game Testing Client and then re-install to ensure your game client will function correctly during Early Game Access.

Learn more about how to get ready for Early Game Access!

If you haven’t pre-ordered Star Wars: The Old Republic yet, you still have time. Visit our Pre-Order Page, secure your copy of the game and redeem your Pre-Order Code at the Code Redemption Center to pre-load the client and qualify for Early Game Access.

If you have any issues installing or patching the game client for The Old Republic, check visit the Customer Service Support section for information and assistance.

*Customers who redeem their Pre-Order Code at the Code Redemption Center prior to launch will be able to pre-load the Star Wars: The Old Republic Game Client before the official Game launch. Pre-loading the Game does not grant you access to the Game. Pre-Ordering the Game only allows you access to the Early Game Access period and your Color Crystal. Early Game Access may be up to 7 days. The length of your Early Game Access depends on the date and order in which you redeemed your Pre-Order Code. In order to continue playing the Game after the Early Game Access period, you must redeem your official Game Product Registration Code at the Code Redemption Center.

Confirmed that Dec. 13th is NOT a typo.  Make your time, fools...we ride as early as this Tuesday.

I'm just assuming that means you will get your email saying when your early access begins, not when servers open.

@Rockjaw
Stephen Reid
Early Game Access *starts* on December 13th. Emails will be sent on the day you get access.
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And before it gets asked (because I know someone will), you will not know your date ahead of date.  You will sit on your Inbox awaiting the invitation and YOU WILL LIKE IT  :why_so_serious: :drill:

Where exactly do i login to start dling it? i keep trying to use the origin launcher but there aint shit there.

Where exactly do i login to start dling it? i keep trying to use the origin launcher but there aint shit there.

Login to the SWTOR site.  Go to My Account at the top right.  If you've already redeemed your preorder code, go to pre-order on the account management tab on the right.  There will be a button in the middle that says download game client.

Login to the SWTOR site.  Go to My Account at the top right.  If you've already redeemed your preorder code, go to pre-order on the account management tab on the right.  There will be a button in the middle that says download game client.

What the heck is with this "pre-order now and you MAY get early access UP TO 5 days early"-bullshit? If I pre-order the game, I might get early access, depending on how many other people have redeemed their pre-order codes before me? What the fuck?

What the heck is with this "pre-order now and you MAY get early access UP TO 5 days early"-bullshit?

If I pre-order the game, I might get early access, depending on how many other people have redeemed their pre-order codes before me?

"pre-order now and you MAY get early access UP TO 5 days early"

What the fuck?

I find the lack of grace period disturbing. There's going to be a lot of folks who lose access on the 19th and then won't be able to play until after the holiday season due to the postal systems and release dates. Seems odd they are being so harsh with it but I guess they need to recoup as much money as they can from box sales given what they have laid out for it.

Have a Product Registration Code?
If you redeem a Product Registration Code during Early Game Access, your 30 days of included game time will not begin until the game officially launches on December 20, 2011, 12:01AM EST (Pacific: December 19th, 9:01PM PST; European: December 20th, 05:01AM GMT, 06:01AM CET).

Are you a guild member through the Pre-Launch Guild Program?

Just prior to Early Game Access, you will be able to log in to swtor.com and visit the Guilds Headquarters (http://www.swtor.com/guilds) to see if your guild was assigned a server and to play with them. You'll also see a flag next to a server name in-game if your guild is on that server. Visit the Guild FAQ (http://www.swtor.com/guilds/faq) for more details.

Stuff.

I find the lack of grace period disturbing.

The only downside is they will send you your early access invite on the day you get access.  So if you get to play the 13th, you wont know until the 13th.  Makes booking the day off ahead a guessing game :P

That's why businesses invented personal or "sick" days, rite?  :awesome_for_real:

I miss being able to take one and fall behind by a day and a half AT BEST.

That's why businesses invented personal or "sick" days, rite?  :awesome_for_real:

My boss would know. :cry:

Though maybe I can claim it as a mental health day...

No grace period at all?  My copy has to come half way around the world, what was the point of pre ordering if I can't play at launch?

That does kind of suck, since amazon is telling me Dec 22 delivery. At least it's in the middle of the week, so I'll be working anyway.

To be fair, the only thing I remember about a grace period was for guild masters in the pre-launch guild program (so BC can exist for a while before I log into retail).

I am getting same-day delivery from Amazon, odd that you are not?

In Europe, game copies will be available at retail starting on December 15, 2011. For those of you in the USA and Canada, game copies will be available at retail starting on December 20, 2011.

Amazing, a game gets to appear in Europe first.

They should do that more often :why_so_serious:

Think the launch is still global i.e. you can only login once December 20th comes? You just get to stare longingly at your boxed game earlier in EU.

Interesting, just got an offer for a pre-order code. Can you still apply them to your account ? Is it all you need for access until the 20th ?

The prima guide (shut up) is also released on the 20th, with 2 day shipping I get it...on the 20th.  :uhrr:

A surreal moment:

It's from EA and devs from failed MMOs we mocked 3 years ago. 

At this point I was expecting tears and gnashing of teeth about the game.  That all is happening, just not as envisioned.  It's about the inability to play it sooner rather than the game itself.

That's because, for all our bravado and jadedness, we're still the industry's bitches.

Oh come on. People get stuff for free (like headstart access to the game) and then bitch that they don't get enough stuff for free. Or that they might have to spend some time not playing - or paying for - the game.  :oh_i_see:

Maybe it's free when you preorder from amazon and cancel right away but you know the even sold the preorder boxes here for 5€+.

Perhaps it has something to do with me having Prime. When I originally ordered it it was coming on the 22nd, then I got an email saying "Amazon is happy to announce release day delivery for this title!" This was months ago at this point I think.

This is fucking retarded.  Not telling us when we start before hand and not having a grace period?  Jesus Christ.

Edit: And why do they always send out these fucking emails and then take their site down for maintenance?  Whoever is in charge of their communications should be shot, they have done nothing but cause confusion and fuck things up.

Well, I thought it might be a good idea if we posted when we redeemed our pre-order codes, then we could kind of estimate things as people got in. I'll post mine just as soon as their site isn't down for maintenance... Which I'm sure will be really soon...

If that's not a refundable deposit then they saw you coming from a mile off.

$5 preorder fee on Origin. Fee not deposit.

Please note that you will only be paying a deposit for the game when ordering for the official pre-order program.

I got mine 2 days after preorders came up.

I expect I'll get in pretty early, I pre-ordered and put the code in pretty much as soon as they went up.  

Unfortunately, I doubt I'll be done with this current out of town project before the early access happens.  Little free time and crappy hotel internet, hooray.  I'll at least be able to reserve names for my characters, though.  

Effectively that's telling individuals when they'll get in, which we can't do. If we did that, the likelihood of someone, somewhere getting 'screwed over' is high - because they'll think they're on (say) Day Three, and end up in on Day Four because of some reason we can't predict.

We're guarding against the uncertain, here. We may allow a load of people into the game on Day One, and find an unknown bug that causes severe problems. A server could blow up. A hurricane could hit a data center. We don't think we will have these sorts of issues - and large scale testing has not given us major problems - but we are being cautious.


I'm afraid you cannot, for the reasons I gave above.


Here's some good news - assuming all things being equal, and without any disasters occurring, we're planning on bringing up all the servers on which pre-imported guilds are being placed on Day One of Early Game Access.

Again - that's assuming no disasters - but this ensures whenever you get Early Game Access, if you have had your guild deployed the server you're deployed to should be ready.


We'll be emailing people about that before Early Game Access begins.


That's exactly how we're going to do it. We will be selecting based on when the pre-order code was redeemed on SWTOR.com.

Edit: And why do they always send out these fucking emails and then take their site down for maintenance?  Whoever is in charge of their communications should be shot, they have done nothing but cause confusion and fuck things up.

I think it's less inability to play it sooner as much as inability to manage expectations. People can easily deal with "you wait until Wednesday, then show up", less easily with "sometime in this week your package will arrive", it's why so many F5 buttons have died due to package tracking software ;)

A surreal moment:

It's from EA and devs from failed MMOs we mocked 3 years ago. 

At this point I was expecting tears and gnashing of teeth about the game.  That all is happening, just not as envisioned.  It's about the inability to play it sooner rather than the game itself.

That's not what happened during our Testing Weekends, and we were at considerably higher numbers in the final weekends than we're projecting for Day One of Early Game Access. In fact we specifically tested for scenarios where hundreds of thousands of people hit the servers at exactly the same time, and saw smooth ramps to maximum population servers.

We've never had servers down from over-capacity, although yes, we have had queues - and yes, we're expecting queues during Early Game Access and launch, although we are going to be extremely vigilant to keep those queues to a reasonable size/wait-time.


Sorry, but that's not what I said. I said:
Whether you get invited to Day One or Day Seven, our plans are that your guild server will be up and your guild will be waiting for you. Barring, as always, some unknown problems.

I cannot deny that you may go to work and get an email invite - that is possible, I'm afraid. Whenever you get invited though, your guild server will be up, and you won't need to move anywhere. (Unless you choose to, of course.)

I'm amazed there is no grace period...

So if you don't have the retail version on the 20th..... No more playing until you get your copy. 

I'm amazed there is no grace period...

So if you don't have the retail version on the 20th..... No more playing until you get your copy. 

Grassy ass.

Good lord, people just really want to be the first to log in don't they?

Good lord, people just really want to be the first to log in don't they?

I'm guessing that CE will get the early days followed by the bonus digital copy.  I pre-ordered and registered the standard version of the game on the first day it was available.  I'll let you all know when I actually get to play.  

Good lord, people just really want to be the first to log in don't they?

What copy of the game you bought has no bearing.  It's simply when you put your pre-order code in. 

We are now able to offer Release-Date Delivery for this video game.  This special delivery option is available to you free of charge and has been automatically applied to your order.  Your copy of 'Star Wars: The Old Republic' will arrive on 20-Dec-11.

I got this way back on September 30th, so I would think it shouldn't be an issue.

I'm guessing that CE will get the early days followed by the bonus digital copy.  I pre-ordered and registered the standard version of the game on the first day it was available.  I'll let you all know when I actually get to play.  

True story:  last night I had a nightmare that my early access only lasted like 2 days.   :ye_gods:
Hmmm, I guess the 1st step is recognizing that I have a problem.

Did I get access on the 13th in your dream?

Pretty much everyone else did but me, so yah.

I'll believe it when I get the email.  Until then, I remain skeptical.   :grin:

I never pre-order until I beta.  But in this case I didnt get into the beta until 3 weeks ago so  :oh_i_see:.  Now it's gonna come back to bite me since the pre-order policy wasnt clear until late in the dev-cycle.  Shoulda just dropped the $5-$10 regardless and gotten a key to apply at least.   :dead_horse:


Tbh, I didnt think I'd like the game and planned on getting back into Eve.  Now I'm rightly screwed both ways.   No one likes to be the guild-newb with no one to level with.

Huh?  This has been clearly stated since pre-orders started.

People seem to think that if they're not in on the very first hour of the very first day, they'll be left in the dust and have to level in a barren wasteland while all the higher levels point and laugh at them.  Get a grip people, it's only a few days at most!

People seem to think that if they're not in on the very first hour of the very first day, they'll be left in the dust and have to level in a barren wasteland while all the higher levels point and laugh at them.  Get a grip people, it's only a few days at most!

I have the opposite opinion: I want to jet past the bulk of the playerbase so I'm not stuck in full zones trying to get my 10 fozzles while nobody accepts my quest group invites. :P

You're one of those goddamn blind inviter people, aren't you.

What else would you be doing in a quest spawn besides a quest?  Unless you're there farming quest mobs, which is way more douchebagey then someone inviting you blindly.

I could be on my way out of there. I could be waiting for a friend. I could be doing nothing at all. Half the time my blind invites come from someone I can't even SEE, and the few times I've actually accepted them, it did indeed turn out I was doing X while they were doing Y, and no I actually don't want to help you with that, since I did it already because these four quests happen to be in the same area.

So yeah, if you can't manage a "r u heer 4 <blah>?" I can't manage to hit accept.


And here I thought most of you dorks were whining about how MMOs need MORE community.  :oh_i_see:

Wow. You guys talk as if leaving a group after accepting a blind invite is a big deal. It is one more click, and as someone pointed out earlier, more group members = more xp.

People seem to think that if they're not in on the very first hour of the very first day, they'll be left in the dust and have to level in a barren wasteland while all the higher levels point and laugh at them.  Get a grip people, it's only a few days at most!

However, most of the time blind invites are powerlevel requests / begging / etc, in my experience. As a rule of thumb, if it's not obvious why we should group (like, you're in a different zone), buy me dinnersend me a tell first.

I don't like blind invites but I hate seeing three people standing around the same mob's spawnpoint wasting each other's time by not grouping.  It is the lesser evil in my opinion.  There is no rational reason not to accept the invite in that situation so there is no point in possibly missing the next spawn by starting protracted conversations with two or more strangers.  Blind invite it is and I really hope myself and the two others who accepted the invite tag the mob before you do.

Edit: Also, if I may bring up WoW, they eventually made most of these types of mobs such that anyone doing damage to it gets credit so you don't have to group or blind invite.

Nothing about the '3 people standing around' scenario precludes sending a tell first.

In other news, we're supposed to find out what servers we were placed on today, anyone get an email yet?

I guess I don't understand the blind invite declines, if you are indeed on the same quest. If you're standing in front of a group instance and not grouped, or standing by a named spawn...why would I bother typing in a query, when I can just send an invite. I find most people are happy that I'm not trying to ks them, or they've been begging in general for a group for an instance.

What bizarro world is this where I'm the guy in favor of more grouping?

I'm not talking about what Nevermore is saying, just people in the area. And it doesn't bother me if people don't accept random invites for kill x objectives; but when someone declines an invite for a named or instance; and then either attacks the boss or continues lfg in general....it's boggling to me.

Lantyssa, I see sending someone an invite to a shared objective as courtesy. I'm not usually chatty.

Nothing about the '3 people standing around' scenario precludes sending a tell first.

In other news, we're supposed to find out what servers we were placed on today, anyone get an email yet?

Isn't that from Mortal Combat?

It's one of the Lightsaber forms. 

And are you thinking of Shang Tsung?

We did land on Shien with BC.

Shien is like ... the most boring server name I've heard so far.  :heartbreak:

Seriously, we have the worst server name.  :heartbreak: :heartbreak: :heartbreak:

Are we on a tiny assed server, or are the lists not done populating yet?

Looking at the search tool we have like, two ~90 member guilds and one crazy huge one. Looking at some other forums people are posting lists of 500 man guilds 12 to a side on their servers.
t apparently saying the servers listed on the guild page are not final. I'm betting we're on Shien though. Because we can't have nice things.

I show a ton of 400+ guilds on Shien.

EDIT: Never mind, the search filter is broken and giving me other servers too.

ZAM: All right, let's switch our focus. One thing that has players - and me - concerned is endgame content and just how robust or deep it will be. Hand in hand with this concern is the fact that, currently speaking, the content quality of SWTOR is very high and it obviously demands a lot of work to complete. Players are worried that if BioWare wants to hit a certain development cycle to keep players interested, something might be negatively affected in the process. Are you confident that you can deliver enough content on time without skimping on quality?

Ohlen: I think so. Right now, we have a legacy system in place to encourage and reward players for trying out new classes and seeing new storylines. So there's a lot of content there to entertain those players who like to play the "level-up game." On the other hand, there are high-level players who are focused on bringing one character to level 50, and those guys are going to be our main focus for new content. We're going to be producing new flashpoints, new operations, new warzones, and even new single-player content for our highest leveled characters. We already have multiple teams working on that as we speak, and they've got a bunch of flashpoints and operations in the can.

We're also not shrinking the content team at all, and we have a huge content team. Our content team is essentially bigger than… well… I'll just say we have a big content team, how about that! [laughs] We have a very big content team and those guys will continue to work on delivering a regular cadence of high-level content. I can't talk exactly about our delivery schedule, but I can say that within a month of shipping the game, we want to have more high-level content being delivered into the game. We're going to continue to deliver high-level content after that and for the foreseeable future, basically. It's obviously important to us. We want to keep people playing the game, so it's in our best interest to keep doing that.

Bloodworthy - PVP (EU)

 :awesome_for_real:

Seriously, we have the worst server name.  :heartbreak: :heartbreak: :heartbreak:

DarthHater website is trying to keep the server name/count:

http://www.darthhater.com/articles/swtor-news/19789-guild-deployment-server-assignments

So far, 96 servers between U.S. and EU (including French and German ones), and that's just for guild/early access.

We're up to 96 servers.  If you think you can come up with 96+ 'awesome' SWTOR-themed server names, be my guest.

The movies have a character named "Count Dooku" -- sw themed pretty much precludes awesome.

We're up to 96 servers.  If you think you can come up with 96+ 'awesome' SWTOR-themed server names, be my guest.

We're up to 96 servers.  If you think you can come up with 96+ 'awesome' SWTOR-themed server names, be my guest.

Assigned to Server The Fatman

Poor Trask Ulgo, he has sacrificed himself so many times for me.

Blahah

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edit: pic incase they change the name
(http://i.imgur.com/nid7D.png)

edit: pic incase they change the name

It's a smuggler ship in a really bad Old Republic EU book based on the Deceived trailer. Doubtful they'll rename it. Worst book of the Old Republic EQ stuff I read this fall, and that's saying something.

Got our deployment email at around 4:15, a few hours after swtor.com was updated with the infos.

Also the atomic bomb that landed on Nagasaki :P

Take a look at the Guild Allies/Enemies page if you haven't. We have a sad face  :sad: regarding the Flameborn.

Still counts them as an Enemy. I wonder if there is any actual point to having an enemy or ally on another server.

Also, an EU name given to the bloke who nearly played Jabba The Hutt in Episode IV but didn't. He's now got a history and everything. (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fat_Man)

We have an important announcement for those of you who were thinking of attending the launch event at the Oxford Street branch of GAME in London.

Due to unforeseen extremely high levels of demand and in compliance with local law, we have had to change the event to invite only. To make it fair, GAME will randomly draw attendees from a list of those that register their interest. To be in with a chance of attending, please head to GAME’s Facebook page (found here) and follow the instructions given. We’ve also updated the events page on http://yoursagabegins.swtor.com/en/, to reflect this.

Attendance will be limited to 150 people and you will need to be able to make your own way to the event. Good luck!

Has anyone seen a list of designated servers to avoid?

IE large overbearing guilds like somethingawful goons, foreign languages like french canadians, chinese, south american spanish, etc.

Even if your guild got assigned to port nowhere, you can just ignore it and play somewhere else. All you lose is 5000 credits and a couple days to get enough people ready to sign.

When it comes to picking MMO servers, I generally find where the huge guilds and foreigners are going, scratch those off the list, then pick the stupidest sounding name from those remaining in an effort to avoid queues. I'd create my characters on the "Bi-curious Bothan" server, if they had it.

Every internet group would roll on Bi-curious Bothan. Don't kid yourself.

and for the LGBT crowd <Bi-Winning>   :why_so_serious:

<Bi-Polar Bears> is my favorite so far.

Also other guild names on my server that made me chuckle:

Window Lickin' Good
We Have Cookies - a Sith guild
Imperial Revenue Service
Jedi for Jesus
Uh Oh I Sithed my Pants
Wretched Hive
Esoteric Order of Ewoks
The Evil League of Evil
Jawa Jamberoo
Curb Your Imperialism
Cooking with Aunt Beru

Meh, we're on an RP server with our stupid pun name.  :-P

Meh, we're on an RP server with our stupid pun name.  :-P

Bat Country isn't even a pun name, merely a terrible gimmick name. (All guild names are terrible, always)

Updating my list of servers to avoid from earlier.

French speaking servers in US-E or US-W timezones
Veela
Juyo
Keller's Void

German/other (spanish/portugese) speaking servers in US-E or US-W
Kinrath Spider
Legions of Lettow
Port Nowhere
Juyo
The Red Eclipse
Tomb of Freedom Nadd
Trask Ulgo

Oceanic/Australian in US-E or US-W
The Swiftsure (only official one so far)
The Harbinger
Jekk'Jekk Tarr
Begeren Colony

<Curb Your Imperialism> is awesome, you heathens.

Lord Adraas is going to be the RP "megaserver", ala Moon Guard. Unfortunately, our RP-nerd friends are going there so I'm stuck.  :uhrr:

The thing with Moonguard, is it's *everywhere*. It's so damn BIZARRE to see every single area of every single capital just full of people doing stuff. Like you go to a normal server and wander into Orgrimmar and you'll find people at the Bank/AH/Mailbox/TargetDummy the end.

On Moonguard, you go to the goblin area and see people debating the finer points of rocket construction, you go to the tauren area and see people talking about the seasons or something and so on. People go into the inns/taverns and sit down to DRINK.

I just want to be able to say to my friends: OMG, guess what! I met that luckton guy on Tatooine, he was really nice, just like on the forums and we posed for a screeny! And then I killed him! With my lightsaber!

spanish; brazilian is forthcoming,

Less than one hour to Early Game Access. No "last second patch" on sight  :grin: (I pre-ordered and redeemed my code on November 24th, so I'm in no hurry, I guess :P)

Less than one hour to Early Game Access. No "last second patch" on sight  :grin: (I pre-ordered and redeemed my code on November 24th, so I'm in no hurry, I guess :P)

And by the way, Reid mentioned yesterday in a tweet that they will send several waves of invites throughout the day, so don't despair if you don't get any mail within the first 4 hours or so :P

Nitpick: Brazil speaks Portuguese.

Avoid Kinrath Spider at all costs. It is going to be the unofficial Brazilian server.

Hmmm...my Amazon order now has a delivery date of Dec 20 :)

don't despair if you don't get any mail within the first 4 hours or so :P

My patcher keeps telling me I don't have an active subscription on my account.

http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes

and ka-booom!!!! High traffic.

New forums are live (and as you know, only those with an active sub can actively participate)

http://www.swtor.com/community/

Thank you, Sky :)  (a few days ago I read that someone, while rummaging through the client files, found the overhead chat setting...Maybe something hidden in the .INI? Dunno) ; yeah, I was wrong, Merusk: infact, Reid tweeted that anyone whopre-ordered can post, not just those with an active subscription!

If the active sub part is true then I'm in and haven't gotten the e-mail yet.  I was able to post. Entered my preorder code 7/28.

If you are in then the Play button in the launcher will be active. It's possible the forum posting right isn't directly related, and simply having the pre-order code entered is enough for it.

If you are going to create a character in a EU server, AVOID:

- Tomb of Freedon Nadd (PvP)

- Nightmare Lands (PvE)

Looks like the italian community is moving in those two en masse, and believe me, as an italian myself you DON'T WANT to be stuck together with them. If any of you played on Crushridge or Runetotem (WoW EU PvP and PvE servers), you know what I'm talking about.

Weird, i played on Crushridge and don't remember any italian community or any italians.

Since launch until last year.

Weird, i played on Crushridge and don't remember any italian community or any italians.

oh man, my guys are playing on hidden beks  :heartbreak:

Can't be that bad, can it? I can deal with a few egeszegerehu toon names and some gibberish in /say.

STOP BEING RIDICULOUS! Are you teasing you customers, making fun of us? What are you doing there? YOU PUNISH YOUR CUSTOMERS FOR NOT HAVING IT PREORDERED HALF A YEAR EARLIER AFTER YOU HAVE FAILED WARHAMMER LIKE THAT????? ALL SERVERS ARE LIGHT/STANDARD POP NOW!!!

YOU ARE RUINING LAUNCH EXPERIENCE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OPEN SERVERS FOR ALL PREORDERS NOW!! WAIT TILL THEY REACH FULL AND STOP TILL TOMORROW!!! DONT U UNDERSTAND THAT HALF OF PPL YOU INVITE NOW ARE AT WORK AND CANT PLAY AND SOME PPL WHO CAN PLAY AND HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR PAST 4 YEARS DESERVE TO PLAY NOW!!! WEE ALLL PREORDERED!!! DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU WILL HAVE THIS HUGE LAUNCH ON 20th??? NO YOU WONT!! EVERYONE WHO WANTED TO PLAY ALREADY PREORDED!!! JUST OPEN SERVERS NOW FOR ALL PREORDERS!!!

HOW CAN YOU MAKE PPL BUY THE GAME HALF A YEAR EARLIER AFTER YOU FAILED MISIRABLY WITH WARHAMMER??? WHY SHOULD WE TRUST YOU??? BE HAPPY WE PREORDERED!!!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=16858

relevant, though not very work safe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szTEHgqZXY)

IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN I'D BE IN TODAY IF I PRE-ORDERED THE GAME IN JULY, I WOULD HAVE PRE ORDERED THE GAME IN JULY. BUT I HAD NO WAY OF KNOWING. SO I DIDN'T PRE ORDER UNTIL DECEMBER!

This entry wave idea is totally, totally unfair and is a bunch of bullcrap. I'm sitting here with my f'n thumb up my butt while others are getting *SO* far ahead that I'm going to be stuck behind and not able to compete.

Obviously the people who made this game have *NEVER* played an MMO for 5 seconds in their entire life or they would realize that people having 3 or more days ahead of me for playtime are going to have a *HUGE FREAKING ADVANTAGE* That is going to take an unbelievable amount of time to catch up, because while I'm busy playing when I finally get access, they will be to and they'll STILL Have the 70 hours or whatever of playtime that I wasn't allowed to do *ANYTHING*

If this was a single player game or something I'd understand but you're SCREWING UP MY CHANCES TO BE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH PEOPLE by doing this. Its *UNFAIR* It isn't freaking fair. And I'm super pissed about it, and the people who implemented this idea are IDIOTS. If you let someone get in on day 1 you should let EVERYONE OR NOBODY in. This is giving them a HUGE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. DAMNIT

DAMNIT

TL;DR: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

STOP BEING RIDICULOUS! Are you teasing you customers, making fun of us? What are you doing there? YOU PUNISH YOUR CUSTOMERS FOR NOT HAVING IT PREORDERED HALF A YEAR EARLIER AFTER YOU HAVE FAILED WARHAMMER LIKE THAT????? ALL SERVERS ARE LIGHT/STANDARD POP NOW!!!

YOU ARE RUINING LAUNCH EXPERIENCE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OPEN SERVERS FOR ALL PREORDERS NOW!! WAIT TILL THEY REACH FULL AND STOP TILL TOMORROW!!! DONT U UNDERSTAND THAT HALF OF PPL YOU INVITE NOW ARE AT WORK AND CANT PLAY AND SOME PPL WHO CAN PLAY AND HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR PAST 4 YEARS DESERVE TO PLAY NOW!!! WEE ALLL PREORDERED!!! DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU WILL HAVE THIS HUGE LAUNCH ON 20th??? NO YOU WONT!! EVERYONE WHO WANTED TO PLAY ALREADY PREORDED!!! JUST OPEN SERVERS NOW FOR ALL PREORDERS!!!

HOW CAN YOU MAKE PPL BUY THE GAME HALF A YEAR EARLIER AFTER YOU FAILED MISIRABLY WITH WARHAMMER??? WHY SHOULD WE TRUST YOU??? BE HAPPY WE PREORDERED!!!

relevant, though not very work safe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szTEHgqZXY)

relevant, though not very work safe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szTEHgqZXY)

relevant, though not very work safe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2szTEHgqZXY)

So this guy was planning on having a party and asked if all the people coming could pitch some money at the door. On the day of the party, he started a couple hours earlier than he had originally stated which meant the party would be longer for all the people showing up.

I totally showed up at like 11:30pm with $50 and got so mad when I found out everyone drank all the beer and ate all the pretzels. I mean, really. I brought $50, you'd think someone would've save stuff for me.



May not be spot on, but I'm sure you people get the idea.

A quick update on today's invites, and a little preview of tomorrow.

Today, we invited people who had pre-ordered up to the very beginning of October (roughly). Tomorrow, we're going to be inviting the same number of people again; that will take us up to the last week or so of November. On Friday, we'll be inviting even more, and we'll give you an update on that tomorrow.

You'll see more servers coming online tomorrow (not necessarily all of those listed on the Server Status page, though) and almost certainly there will be some queuing. That was always expected. As a reminder, our plan here is to maintain healthy server populations post launch, and during the excitement of launch that will mean queues. That said, we'll be working hard to keep those queues reasonable.

We'll check back in tomorrow with another update.

Also on the forums:

Well, I ordered and redeemed my code on november 24th....Looks like I could make tomorrow's last wave, then  :drill: :drill: :drill:

I'll play (obviously) on Shien with BC and on "The Progenitor" in EU, Republic side.

On the "OH GOD NO GRACE PERIOD" front, I just got an email from Amazon changing the expected delivery date of my box from the 20th to the 16th.

Are you on the EU server with a guild and friends?

Nope, I'll play alone for now.

The community is pretty bad, even for an mmo.  I wonder how many of these people were trained by the terribly moderated SWG forums.

"Star Wars: The Old Republic"
    Previous estimated arrival date: December 23, 2011 - December 29, 2011
    New estimated arrival date: December 21, 2011 - December 27, 2011

Also, people who bought the digital version are supposed to be getting their retail keys e-mailed out on the 16th.

Delivery Estimate: Friday December 16, 2011
Shipping Soon

:drill:

Meanwhile I've received no update from Best Buy as to a street date.

Hello everyone,

While we've worked closely with our retailers in the launch territories to ensure copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic are available from our launch date of December 20th, we understand that for those of you who’ve pre-ordered, there may be a concern about getting your copy on time. We’ve heard you want a 'grace period' where you can continue to play without having to enter a final product registration code (AKA 'game code').

We've been listening, and after doing another deep review of our platform infrastructure, we're taking action. Today, we're announcing a two day grace period for Star Wars: The Old Republic customers.

This means that everyone who pre-ordered and is in the Early Game Access program has forty-eight hours from launch in which to enter their product registration code, which will be found inside the physical Standard and Collector's Editions of the game; for digital editions of the game from Origin.com, the registration code will have been emailed to you after December 16th and will arrive before December 19th at 11:59PM EST. After December 22nd 12:01AM EST, you will be required to have a valid payment method and a product registration code registered to your account to continue to play. We strongly recommend that you register your product code as soon as you are able to do so (rather than waiting until the last minute) to ensure a seamless entry into the game, a smooth experience on the account website and to collect any special gifts and items you may be entitled to based on the version of the game you purchased.

We understand that for some, your copy of the game may still arrive on or after December 22nd. Unfortunately, we cannot extend the grace period any further. We suggest you contact your retailer to discuss shipping options, if this is a concern.

You may be wondering if your 30 days of game time (included with your purchase of the game) will be affected by the grace period. The answer is no. If you redeem your product registration code during the grace period, and add a valid payment method to your account, you will begin your billing cycle from then, and you will be entitled to 30 days of game time. If you redeem your product registration code before December 20th, your billing cycle will begin on December 20th at 12:01AM EST (the official launch date and time of the game).

We know this has been an issue for some of you, and we apologize for the concerns. We're looking forward to welcoming all of you to the official launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic!

Thanks,

Ray and Greg

Been to the WoW forums recently?  :oh_i_see:

It's a lot more towards the VNBoards end of the shitty spectrum, even at their worst the WoW forums were never quite this retarded.

Well.. I could have five fake accounts and be posting from them as immature child, person who mocks then, and three people who back them up. When they make you have to have an active account I bet it changes.

That's because all the mouthbreathers from WoW are now on the SWTOR forums.