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The first wave of Early Game Access emails have now been sent! We will let you know when the next wave goes out.
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So apparently you can see when you entered the code by going to the code redeem page in the account thing.   I redeemed on the 22nd as well.   They are clearly being way too cautious.   They let in like 750,000 people on the one weekend and had no problems.

First two seven characters registered for name claiming rights.

First one in BC.  :drill:

I have to say this is the stupidest plan I've ever seen for letting people into early access.   They can't even tell people when they'll let in the next wave today?  They're getting their panties in an awful twist over the possibility that their servers might be just a little bit overcrowded.

Sounds to me like you're getting your panties in a twist over a game giving people the opportunity to play it almost a week before it's officially sanctioned to launch, at which point none of this pants-on-head silly argument will even matter  :oh_i_see:

Sounds to me like you're getting your panties in a twist over a game giving people the opportunity to play it almost a week before it's officially sanctioned to launch, at which point none of this pants-on-head silly argument will even matter  :oh_i_see:

Actually I'm just annoyed I woke up at the butt crack of dawn and they can't even tell me if I can go back to sleep.

Edit:  NM second wave just went out and I'm in  :drill:.

OH MY GOD I REGISTERED THE SAME DAY AS YOU AND I DIDN'T GET A MAIL WTF BIOWARE WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MISTREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS LIKE THIS I HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL GOD DAMN DAY I AM NEVER EVER GOING TO BUY ANOTHER BIOWARE (AUSTIN) GAME AFTER THIS ONE !!!!

Am I doing it right?   :grin:

I preordered through origin (yeah I know), and received my preorder code right away. I know that origin is an evil rootkit and whatnot, but I won't need to install it anyway.  :awesome_for_real:

Hey everyone, good morning and welcome to the first day of Early Game Access for Star Wars: The Old Republic!

We're granting access based solely on when people's pre-orders were redeemed, and we're going to be granting it in 'waves' - large batches of emails and game entitlements that will go out over the course of today (and tomorrow, and the next day, and so on).

I'll be updating this thread (and this post) as we send out more 'waves' of invites.

So far today, we have sent out two 'waves' of invites; we will be sending more later on, but I cannot be specific on timing. (Why? Because as we invite each wave, we monitor to see how servers are performing and so on. If everything is good, we'll send a 'wave' earlier; we in fact sent 'wave 2' ahead of schedule. So cross your fingers.)

Now, to the question you all have: when will you be invited? Well, I cannot be specific to individuals or even to dates, because again, we have to remain flexible. That said, I can talk a little about the pattern of pre-orders.

At the very beginning of pre-orders, which started on July 21st, we had a massive influx of pre-orders. A huge spike. After that, things settled down. As a result, today especially, you're going to see a fairly narrow band of dates from those admitted to Early Game Access. From tomorrow, it'll spread out to a wider date range.

That's about as specific as we're going to get right now. However, as we send more waves I'll update this thread/post with more information. Thanks for your patience - we know it's been a long road, but you'll be playing before too long.
Stephen Reid | Senior Online Community Manager

Well it is a rather moronic way to let people into an early release. Day-of emails (given all their problems with even sending emails) are a pretty dumb way to spring access on people. So they either are doing some RNG drawing to see who will be in today, or they have the schedule of accounts for access and they are being dicks about not releasing that. It won't matter in a week or two, sure... but it matters now - which is all that is really important in a gamer's mentality. It also makes me raise an eyebrow as to how much other shit down the road they are going to be bitchy secretive about.

Doesn't matter.  You already signed the EULA saying that if they ever "Oops" with your account/billing info, it's not their fault nor can you take them to court.

That's just boilerplate and doesn't necessarily hold up in the European markets.  There was a link a few years back of someone in Britain getting a successful refund from either WoW or WAR because they knew which banking laws to quote at the CS robots.  (Or was that someone here.. now I can't remember.)

Remember that I'm a Hungarian. CC/bank fraud is in our blood! The entire country was blacklisted from paypal / ebay for ~10 years due to the insanely high fraud rate.

I preordered on July 21 and got into early access this morning.  Sadly, I'm at work knowing that "Nebu" will be gone by the time that I get home.

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

I pre-ordered on July 21 and got into early access this morning.  Sadly, I'm at work knowing that "Nebu" will be gone by the time that I get home.

You all think they are being reasonable but on my server there are currently only 40 republic logged in

I could of sworn they told you when you entered your code in your account summary page.

I can't remember this level of froth for a MMO release, ever.

Your observations mirror my own, good sir.   :oh_i_see:

Only soloers dont care about gettin in on launch day.  Everyone else typically does, as this means you'll likely be leveling with someone outside of your guild since people are spread out over a 7 day launch window.

It's kind of the genius grief of all time.  Take the most successful IP ever, make a big aaa mmo with it, taunt people with vague launch/early access details, then come release time let em know that they're not letting everyone in...  and furthermore, you get to watch everyone else play while they wait for an unforeseen email to arrive.

Classy.   :oh_i_see:  Yet brilliant.   :drill:

I can't remember this level of froth for a MMO release, ever.  Even WoW had haters and cynics .. and Geldon doomcasting.

Only soloers dont care about gettin in on launch day. 

Yes this is the first i've seen of it, so far i'm very not impressed.

Death From Above is the greatest thing ever.

That, and the combat feels "off".  Story is good though but the gameplay is pretty meh.

Hey everyone.

We absolutely understand you want to get in and play the game early. It's one of the reasons we expanded our Early Game Access from a maximum of five days to a maximum of seven days. However, there are a couple of important points to realize about today's opening salvo of invites, and the procedure in general for Early Game Access and launch.

First, Early Game Access and launch is not supposed to be a stress test. In our previous Beta Testing Weekends we got up to very large concurrent number of players and brought invites into the game at a very high rate. That was done to stress test every aspect of our systems and servers, and essentially to see if they broke. In some cases, they did, but that helped us improve for launch.

For us, launch isn't just about stuffing our servers with as many people as possible. As anyone who's been through a large MMO launch can tell you, that experience can be painful. Our aim with this launch was to ramp things up gradually, to spread our player population out amongst a variety of servers, to maintain all server types, and to keep queuing to a minimum (although we expect that to happen as we head towards December 20th). So far, all that has been successful for us on Day One.

The second thing to realize is scale. We invited more people to play Star Wars: The Old Republic today than many other MMO launches manage in their entire head-start process. As I mentioned earlier today, when we opened pre-orders we had a huge spike in numbers - far more than most MMOs capture at launch. That was the initial rush. After that, our pre-orders settled down.

What this means is that tomorrow, you'll effectively start to see the pre-order timeline expand. You'll see people who have pre-ordered later than July getting invites. The day after that, more people will be invited. We're actually planning to invite more tomorrow than today, and invite the same number again on Thursday - at which point we'll be into the original 'five days of Early Game Access'.

Last thing. Why aren't we continuing to send waves over time? Two main reasons - one, because we need to see that the servers are maintaining stability over time; adding a lot of players in a short period (in other words, stress testing) can cause stability issues.

Two, our plan is to continue to add servers - but carefully, and in response to demand. We need to monitor that demand and roll out servers accordingly. A long-term recipe for MMO failure is to add a lot of servers early on, and then when population decreases, have to close those servers and merge them together.

Our aim is for Star Wars: The Old Republic to be around for a long time to come. Today's just the first step in that - an early step, too - and we'll be running smoothly, with a stable population, before too long.

I got my invite for my canceled pre-order a few hours ago. Just thought you'd want to know  :why_so_serious:

I got my invite for my canceled pre-order a few hours ago. Just thought you'd want to know  :why_so_serious:

:heartbreak:

Not that I expected to get in today, but still.

Steve lets loose his pride, finds a polite way of explaining why things are the way they are with this rollout, along with giving the competition the verbal finger.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showpost.php?p=66561&postcount=6438

Might be wishful thinking, but it sounds to me like they are going to cave a bit and let more folks in tomorrow than they originally planned.

Sept 27th here.  I hope for tomorrow but expect Thursday.

  And that is why we can't have nice things. :argh:

Everyone should tell Kildorn to go fuck himself, though. EVERYONE.

Because the holier-than-thou counter whining is not obnoxious at all either  :awesome_for_real:

I am just tired of living in a world where, despite being mathematically impossible, 95% of the people seem to be of below average intelligence.

I was well and truly hurt by Sjofn's insults.

And then I remembered she's spending just after release in the wrong state <3

Especially since the people "whining" in this thread are like. Joking?

So the people who have been exploiting/rushing, get to get to level 50, then go farm all the bind on equip items they can find, and they get to set the market price. Because they preorded between july 21st and july 28. It's ironic july 21st is my birthday, but i don't spend my life on the net, so i didn't know about the preorder until much more recently, but had i known, i could have preordered on day one with ease.

So basically finding out about preorders at a later date, makes you less entitled to play then the person who paid the same amount of money as you or perhaps less money then you based on what edition you bought. This whole thing is ********. People think that this won't effect the games economy. If thats the case, sadly you've never grasped the economy of any mmo you've played, because day one effects the market that exists a year down the track. So screw you bioware, thankyou for ruining the launch experience for 70-80% of your community. Elitist ********'s please refrain from posting on my thread, i don't want to hear about how you think we don't have the right to complain.

The fact is

-Bioware refers to it as a game launch

-Early access advertising for you, may have said "up to 5 days", but there are many examples where the advertisement simply december "EARLY ACCESS- DECEMBER 13TH"

-Bioware has failed to sufficiently inform their community as to whats going on, people have resorted to 'EDUCATED SPECULATION' as to when they'll get to play. People shouldn't be speculating when they'll be able to play a game, like most companies, you should have a fixed release date in which everyone is able to play at the same time

-Bioware has claimed it's not a stress test, but claims that letting more people in than what they did is a form of stress testing (Which is ********) the server proved it could hold up and to 2 million people during the final beta weekend. So why couldn't they begin with 2 million people this time.

-Go ahead. Complain that we're complaining, elitists. You are simply arguing for the sake of arguing, at least we have legitimet reasons as to why we can claim to be an unhappy/disatisfied customer, as opposed to complaining that people are using the forums to voice their opinion (which guess what, is what a forums for).

Today, we're inviting many more people to play The Old Republic - more than yesterday, and over a much greater time span.

As explained yesterday, our initial pre-order rush was over a very short span (about a week). Today we'll be inviting well beyond July, but again, we're remaining cautious as we send each email wave.

We're currently planning on sending four waves of email invites today of equal size. We're going to get them out as fast as we can, while monitoring player counts and server population. I'll update this thread when each wave is sent. You can also follow our official Twitter account for notification.

Wave One was sent at 8AM CST (6AM PST / 9AM EST / 2PM GMT / 3PM CET).

We kept checking the pop on our server all day yesterday and it never got over ~100 people on Republic.   It's PvP so figure maybe 230 people total at around 7pm.   I guess basically the problem is some servers have way more early pre orders than others.

They're possibly also expecting to be able to transfer from PVE to PVP more easily than from PVP to PVE.  WoW had that restriction for a while.

Second wave sent: looks like we're quickly heading toward the end of August (and two more waves left, bar any bonus one).

It was indeed the other way around. You could transfer from PVP to PVE, but not PVP to PVE.

I got in on the 2nd wave and I entered my code on Aug 23rd.

9/4 here...good chance for Wave 3 if not 4 for me today, me thinks  :awesome_for_real:

Death From Above is the greatest thing ever.

 :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

And this is for my victims:  :heartbreak:

This ability is wiiiiiiiiiiiiiin.

 :uhrr:

What?

Third wave sent; looks like the very end of august. Possibly we'll get to the beginning of september with the last wave.

The logic was that leveling on a PVP server was much harder than PVE, so in order to have a max level character on a PVP server you had to "earn it" and couldn't level one up on a carebear server and transfer in.

Just got my email. I registered my code on 9/10.

Yep, by reading the official forums ( :ye_gods:), with this wave we're already around the 10th of September....Beside the fact that pre-orders slowed down in the late august-september-october timeframe, it really looks like Bioware may speed things up  :awesome_for_real: :awesome_for_real:

9th October or 10th September?

Well there goes the neighborhood. The great unwashed are in  :cry2:

More worried about instances and grouping with people I know rather than the dregs... erm, THOSE dregs. Not our dregs.

I'd be willing to be money that EVERYONE will be in by the end of the day tomorrow.  So essentially Early Access "up to" the 15th that was previously posted will be for everyone.

How much money we talkin here?  Or perhaps a trade?  Say, if I don't get in tomorrow you give me your login for mine later.  And if I DO get in tomorrow I give you my login for yours tomorrow.

More worried about instances and grouping with people I know rather than the dregs... erm, THOSE dregs. Not our dregs.

But they didn't allow Hutt Lord as a playable race, so we can't have Full as an avatar.

Fourth wave sent... And my Oct 12 account still isn't in.

The server I was on had 2 instances of Hutta going and 21 people in the one I was in.

They let in anybirdie nowadays.

A Hutt is never full.

I can't believe it took so fucking long. 

Auurrrgh.  I'm 10/11.  I'm probably going to be first wave tomorrow, and I'll have to sit at work all day knowing it.

In  :heart:

Comedy GOLD, Jerry!

I read somewhere that this was EA's call and not BW's.  Dunno if that's true, but it'd make a lot more sense if that was the case.
This parsing of invites breaks more things than it fixes imo and reid's explanation also wasn't good enough unless you're an ignorant fanboi lemming.

Also been reading around the webz about many many markets already being cornered (even purpz already), gold farming being rampant, and a lot of day 1 folk who just cant find groups to play with and end up skipping content or are being forced to play alts (which doesnt help the starter zones).  Another interesting effect is the secondary gaming market (livestreamers for instance), wherein BW gets free advertising...  a lot of it is lost since there really is no day 1 rush and many contributors cant login yet.  And when they do, the zone is dead.  There's no '1st to 50,' 'first raid,' or any of that either now of course.  It's all been rendered dependent on pre-access.

The last effect I read on was that BW really doesnt have adequate server load/pop numbers now.  Since they're parsing invites rather than letting everyone in, they cant guage peak use in any node whatsoever until all invites are done.  When this point arrives, people/guilds will be too far along to switch servers once the untested realms pop queues.  Especially so on launch day.

Anyways, it's a borked launch model.  I much preferred Rift's launch style to any other MMO I've seen.  They had double the amount of necessary servers on tap if need be and opened extras the moment things got dicey.  You typically could find a stable server by day 2 and had many to choose from.  By actual launch day they had all the numbers they needed and things were near perfect for the late arrivals.   Later on they'd allow server moves and mergers, and so on.

I dunno, the whole idea kinda destroyed it for me (probably for a lot of others too).  And when you even start hearing people who got in at 7am tuesday complaining, then it's probably time for BW to re-evaluate their motives.

I'm an ignorant fanboi lemming.

I read somewhere that this was EA's call and not BW's.  Dunno if that's true, but it'd make a lot more sense if that was the case.
This parsing of invites breaks more things than it fixes imo and reid's explanation also wasn't good enough unless you're an ignorant fanboi lemming.

Also been reading around the webz about many many markets already being cornered (even purpz already), gold farming being rampant, and a lot of day 1 folk who just cant find groups to play with and end up skipping content or are being forced to play alts (which doesnt help the starter zones).  Another interesting effect is the secondary gaming market (livestreamers for instance), wherein BW gets free advertising...  a lot of it is lost since there really is no day 1 rush and many contributors cant login yet.  And when they do, the zone is dead.  There's no '1st to 50,' 'first raid,' or any of that either now of course.  It's all been rendered dependent on pre-access.

The last effect I read on was that BW really doesnt have adequate server load/pop numbers now.  Since they're parsing invites rather than letting everyone in, they cant guage peak use in any node whatsoever until all invites are done.  When this point arrives, people/guilds will be too far along to switch servers once the untested realms pop queues.  Especially so on launch day.

Anyways, it's a borked launch model.  I much preferred Rift's launch style to any other MMO I've seen.  They had double the amount of necessary servers on tap if need be and opened extras the moment things got dicey.  You typically could find a stable server by day 2 and had many to choose from.  By actual launch day they had all the numbers they needed and things were near perfect for the late arrivals.   Later on they'd allow server moves and mergers, and so on.

I dunno, the whole idea kinda destroyed it for me (probably for a lot of others too).  And when you even start hearing people who got in at 7am tuesday complaining, then it's probably time for BW to re-evaluate their motives.

stuff

No, Ghambit is just 100% wrong.  :grin:

I read somewhere that this was EA's call and not BW's.  Dunno if that's true, but it'd make a lot more sense if that was the case.
This parsing of invites breaks more things than it fixes imo and reid's explanation also wasn't good enough unless you're an ignorant fanboi lemming.

Also been reading around the webz about many many markets already being cornered (even purpz already), gold farming being rampant, and a lot of day 1 folk who just cant find groups to play with and end up skipping content or are being forced to play alts (which doesnt help the starter zones).  Another interesting effect is the secondary gaming market (livestreamers for instance), wherein BW gets free advertising...  a lot of it is lost since there really is no day 1 rush and many contributors cant login yet.  And when they do, the zone is dead.  There's no '1st to 50,' 'first raid,' or any of that either now of course.  It's all been rendered dependent on pre-access.

The last effect I read on was that BW really doesnt have adequate server load/pop numbers now.  Since they're parsing invites rather than letting everyone in, they cant guage peak use in any node whatsoever until all invites are done.  When this point arrives, people/guilds will be too far along to switch servers once the untested realms pop queues.  Especially so on launch day.

Anyways, it's a borked launch model.  I much preferred Rift's launch style to any other MMO I've seen.  They had double the amount of necessary servers on tap if need be and opened extras the moment things got dicey.  You typically could find a stable server by day 2 and had many to choose from.  By actual launch day they had all the numbers they needed and things were near perfect for the late arrivals.   Later on they'd allow server moves and mergers, and so on.

I dunno, the whole idea kinda destroyed it for me (probably for a lot of other too).  And when you even start hearing people who got in at 7am tuesday complaining, then it's probably time for BW to re-evaluate your motives.

Once you get in you can login right away with no queues and the servers run flawlessly, which trumps everything else.

How are people cornering the purple market?

Geeze, folks, so much for my wordy reply. You could have warned me to just put in a  :uhrr:


 :heartbreak:

Don't try to peek behind the Ghambit curtain, it is eyes and tentacles all the way down.

a lot of day 1 folk who just cant find groups to play with and end up skipping content or are being forced to play alts (which doesnt help the starter zones).  

Other than that, I ran PUGs for the Dromund Kaas heroic stuff without any problems. We grouped for the mandalorian area and then hit the next one by the statue to get that done. For the Hutta stuff, I caught Cho's sniper just as I was going back at level 11 to clean up the heroic stuff before moving off-world and we duo'd it easy-peasy. A roundabout way of saying it shouldn't be too much of an issue tackling the low hanging group content.

The last effect I read on was that BW really doesnt have adequate server load/pop numbers now.  Since they're parsing invites rather than letting everyone in, they cant guage peak use in any node whatsoever until all invites are done.  When this point arrives, people/guilds will be too far along to switch servers once the untested realms pop queues.  Especially so on launch day.

They're going to get all the purples and then gouge people that come along later... somehow! Despite the fact that the new people won't have any money to spend anyway and can just as easily get 'purpz' themselves.

I read somewhere that this was EA's call and not BW's.  Dunno if that's true, but it'd make a lot more sense if that was the case.
This parsing of invites breaks more things than it fixes imo and reid's explanation also wasn't good enough unless you're an ignorant fanboi lemming.

Also been reading around the webz about many many markets already being cornered (even purpz already), gold farming being rampant, and a lot of day 1 folk who just cant find groups to play with and end up skipping content or are being forced to play alts (which doesnt help the starter zones).  Another interesting effect is the secondary gaming market (livestreamers for instance), wherein BW gets free advertising...  a lot of it is lost since there really is no day 1 rush and many contributors cant login yet.  And when they do, the zone is dead.  There's no '1st to 50,' 'first raid,' or any of that either now of course.  It's all been rendered dependent on pre-access.

The last effect I read on was that BW really doesnt have adequate server load/pop numbers now.  Since they're parsing invites rather than letting everyone in, they cant guage peak use in any node whatsoever until all invites are done.  When this point arrives, people/guilds will be too far along to switch servers once the untested realms pop queues.  Especially so on launch day.

Anyways, it's a borked launch model.  I much preferred Rift's launch style to any other MMO I've seen.  They had double the amount of necessary servers on tap if need be and opened extras the moment things got dicey.  You typically could find a stable server by day 2 and had many to choose from.  By actual launch day they had all the numbers they needed and things were near perfect for the late arrivals.   Later on they'd allow server moves and mergers, and so on.

I dunno, the whole idea kinda destroyed it for me (probably for a lot of others too).  And when you even start hearing people who got in at 7am tuesday complaining, then it's probably time for BW to re-evaluate their motives.

How it will feel to be a late starter in Ghambit's world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsbYx6hevoQ)

And lest I just be snarky without contributing to the 'discussion':
Because, you know, it's not an issue. From the guy who NEVER GROUPS IN MMO.

And lest I just be snarky without contributing to the 'discussion':
Because, you know, it's not an issue. From the guy who NEVER GROUPS IN MMO.

 :drill:

They let in anybirdie nowadays.

I run in windowed mode, I'll still post when I'm on a taxi to somewhere.  :why_so_serious:

Do taxis ever go anywhere else?

How many of you read those lengthy legal agreements? How many were there, 29?

to all those people who want to throw the fact it says
up to
5 days early access . and use this as a you get what they promised
UP TO
5 days meaning 1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days and even 5 days of access

i think those of us with only UP TO 5 days should look into a class action lawsuit, if others are given 6 and 7 days access, as false advertising because up to 5 days is 1 2 3 4 and 5 not 6 or 7.
to avoid a lawsuit bioware should take everyone who would get 6 or 7 days access thus creating a false advertising on bowares part and deny them 2 of the next 5 days access thus giving all pre orders the advertised UP to 5 days access

so if they got in Tuesday they need to be denied 2 days before the 19th and those who got in Wednesday should be denied 1 day before the 19th

we bought early access as part of a contract for a product. nowhere did it ever say 6 or 7 days access and if it was a gift then bioware should legally be responsible for business perk gift taxes of 2 days for every person they gave a gift to. bioware you are a business and are bound by law to certain business rules

Uh-oh, they're talking about a class action. This shit just got serious  :why_so_serious:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=26352 (http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=26352)

Morning everyone!

We're starting to send out more invites for today.

Here's the good news: overnight we decided to send out more invites than we had originally planned. However, we'll be spacing those invites out, which means we'll have more 'waves' than the previous four-per-day. We are inviting more people today than we did during yesterday.

I'll update this thread as we send invites. As a reminder, we're also updating our official Twitter accounts (@SWTOR, @SWTOR_FR and @SWTOR_DE) with the invites as they sent; that'll be more up-to-the-minute than this post.

For anyone who's not yet been invited, remember to have the email address no-reply@bioware.swtor.com in your address book so it doesn't hit spam filters.

Assuming you have the SWTOR client installed, you can also periodically launch it. If you're ready to go your 'play' button will be click-able.

EDIT: Second wave sent, 10am EST, 4pm CET . Maybe end of october-very beginning of november?

And I expect all you early adopters to run me through shit and suffer through my painfully slow decision making processes in the conversation wheels.  :why_so_serious:

So are we absolutely sure the non-pre-order copies will not get early access? I'll be getting my copy tomorrow and I'll stick it in right away. I have characters to run through LFR, I certainly hope I don't magically get TOR access because I don't trust myself to play the correct game  :uhrr:

Uh-oh, they're talking about a class action. This shit just got serious  :why_so_serious:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=26352 (http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=26352)

We've got a pretty good level spread in BC right now. I was going to roll an alt (well, I rolled them for names, but haven't played them) but at this point I'd have a hard time switching stories, I think. Maybe I could play the Hutta-based Agent, but I'm surprised at my resistance to cheating on my Powertech.

As far as dialog-skipping, I haven't found it to be an issue yet - though by our third run through Black Talon we did skip a couple. The minor (and major!) variations depending on who wins the roll helps keep it interesting imo.

11/28 here, and still not in.

Yep, I'm in. 11/28.  Cheers.

Server Status on The Fatman server is currently:  Very Heavy.

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.

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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

People will still bitch.

Inevitable considering the large number of monosynaptic cunts on the official forums.

SWTOR had a million preorders. That's a million dollars lost, which explains why they didn't want to do a grace period.

I love how people rage about 'world firsts' when there's nothing in-game that tracks world firsts.

Got my email this morning. Then I had to go to work.

 :heartbreak:

I'm in...but apparently all teh purplze are gone. :sad_panda:

You can have it.

I have a feeling by tomorrow, noonish, everyone will be in.

I wanted glowy eyes, I got veiny/dirty stuff around my mouth. So naturally I turned that off. Now it turns itself on every time I zone somewhere, it's very annoying.

The forum people seem surprised that the CE stuff doesn't do very much, don't know what they were expecting, especially since the contents were clearly stated.  All it's really good for is bragging rights five years from now when you can show that you spent way too much money for the CE back at launch.  And even then since they make and sell so many CEs nowadays it isn't going to be a huge deal.  I think every third lightsaber I see right now is the CE yellow/black crystal - and it's ugly.  I bought the CE and the box is so big I had to put it down in my storage locker.

In WoW I do kinda like bringing out my panda cub/diablo/zergling when people are whipping out their pets though.

I don't have the CE but yellow/black lightsaber crystal sounds like the color crystal that came with every pre-order. Be it standard or digital-deluxe edition. And yes, it's fugly!

Why they didn't make the crystal from preorder orange I'll never know.

There's a vendor in game that sells an item for 1 million credits that (I believe) gives you access to the CE vendor.

It costs 2x as much as the regular box, so maybe that's why they expect more.

the CE and the box is so big I had to put it down in my storage locker.

THAT'S THE WOW FACTOR, BABY!

I took a picture of my SWG special edition on top of my CE. Box contents have changed in 10 years.

And you didn't share out a link? tut tut

I'm afraid the other sith will make fun of me running around with a blue light sabre... :awesome_for_real:.

And well they should, weaksauce.

I'm afraid the other sith will make fun of me running around with a blue light sabre... :awesome_for_real:.

I find the Orange lightsaber to be properly ambiguous.

Is it wrong that I want a pink crystal for my saber? I really really want one though...

Is that possible?

BW put in a black sabre with yellow glow.  :uhrr:  Of course it is possible. It is available in the game or will it be at some point is the real question.

Well yeah.  :oh_i_see:  Anyone find a list of all the colors you can have in game?

The crystals exist, there are a bunch of npcs with the model, and I've heard some empire folks had them for a few days (I think a drop had the wrong crystal in it), but I don't know if they're craftable or not.

I will be buying ME3 in a store like some sort of savage when that comes out.  :why_so_serious:

I did this with swtor - I partied like it was 1999.

No purple lightsabers!  Who the FUCK do you people think you are?  Are you Mace Windu/Samuel L. Jackson?  

"He will strike down, with furious anger, those who attempt to copy and demean his lightsaber.  And you will know his name is MACE WINDU!"

You forget the part where he has to do almost nothing to earn his wage and is surrounded by video games all day.  Could be worse!  Possibly.