The Early Access/I'm in and you're not, neener-neener! Thread

[Nevermore]

But what about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! 

The above is a parody and not to be construed as the actual opinion of this poster.

[Pezzle]

WHY CAN I NOT PLAY FOR FREE A GAME I HAVE NOT PAID FOR!!!  THIS IS SO UNFAIR!!!  EVERYONE CANCEL YOUR SUBS OUT OF FAIRNESS TO THE PEOPLE OF URUGUAY    

[Rokal]

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

[Pezzle]

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

Heh, that one needs to go on the official forums.

[Sjofn]

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

[Ghambit]

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

You're a dumbass.  I woulda bought it from you.

[luckton]

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

Same.  I registered in mid September if I recall correctly.  I think I've got a good chance for tomorrow.

[Rokal]

My pre-order was placed on July 25th and I got my invite around 1 PM est, if that gives you some sort of gauge where invites are.

[Tannhauser]

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

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.

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.

[Sobelius]

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

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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'.
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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.

It sounds like they're aiming to give everyone who pre-ordered before Dec 13th the possibility of getting 5 full days of early access. If they do, props to them.

[Ginaz]

Fuck theres a lot of whiny cry babies complaining about not getting in EARLY...on the HEADSTART...BEFORE the game is officially released.   People are actually cancelling their pre-orders because they didn't in today.  And that is why we can't have nice things.

[Nevermore]

Good! The more babies that cancel, the quicker I'll get in! 

[Sky]

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

Actually...the rest of us get nice things and they sulk. Win-win.

[Rasix]

Is the wrong time to say that due to me having to cancel and re-preorder, I had a spare early access key I never used? 

[Riggswolfe]

I got in early this morning and immediately made 8 characters, 4 republic, 4 imperial. I may ask you guys to recruit my Imps into BC though I suspect I'll rarely play them, at least for awhile.

[Sjofn]

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

[kildorn]

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

:(

Me and the other 6 people on Taris.

[Nevermore]

I'm pretty sure that Kildy employed hax.

[Ginaz]

I just want to get in and reserve the names I want before I go home and visit my parents, which will be on 20 Dec.

[Cyrrex]

Jesus H. Criminy.  It's a head start on a head start.  Free bonus time.  The people willing to actually give money to EA, you know, a significant infusion of capital for their project, are being lightly rewarded for their commitment.  The earlier you commit, the earlier the reward.  Anyone who complains about this in any way whatsoever is a bona-fide retard, and that probably includes at least two people in this very thread.  Here's hoping that your PSUs all fail, your GPU explodes in your face, or some other act of karma bites you in your dumb ass.

[Wasted]

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

[Cyrrex]

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

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.

[Sjofn]

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

[kildorn]

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

So anyways, for people who care: yeah, it seems "high" graphics settings got a pretty heavy boost. And they seem to be taking it really slow on the invites from what I've seen of the population numbers (sub 60 on the second planet around midnight est)

[Nevermore]

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

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.

Actually, it's mathematically very possible.  Now if you were talking about the median...

[Sjofn]

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

Stupid family. Even worse, Ingmar is talking about installing it on his laptop so HE can play while I ... I don't even know! Cry, I guess.

[Nevermore]

Or commander his laptop.

[Sjofn]

That is also a possibility! Or I'll just fuss at him until he stops and we're BOTH unhappy. 

[Cyrrex]

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

Not referring to your whining.  I think we can all tell the difference at this point.

[Amaron]

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.

[Surlyboi]

Comedy GOLD, Jerry!

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).

[Mattemeo]

It's... beautiful...!

[Surlyboi]

The amount of self-absorption there is astounding. And that's coming from me, I'm an asshole.

[ajax34i]

They should have said "We'll let people in based on the amount of praise they post / the amount of complaints in their posts."

[Surlyboi]

My favorite response was, "Your Q key seems to be stuck."