I'm not a 14 year old gamer. I've been playing games for over twenty years. Yes way back in day with my Atari 2600. I started playing WoW just before the first content patch was released. I've been playing SW:TOR since mid-December. That was all put out there just to give some credentials for what I'm about to say. This game is still a baby. Give it some time to grow up. I try not to remember all the whining and moaning WoW went through as it slowly ecked out content, destroyed classes, nerfed constantly to satisfy PvPer's and generally ignored it's player base completely. Blizzard's customer support line was miserable, and it's still not that great. Remember when they tried to make everyone go live ID? That's just one of hundreds of mess-ups, missteps, and just really horrible ideas. SW:TOR hasn't gotten enough time to find it's feet yet, to take it's first few steps. And the haters are already circling like sharks. Is the game perfect, no. Is it enjoyable, yes for a while. Will the experience improve, probably. Once they get through the much needed QoL improvements and are able to add more content. I guess what I'm trying to say is, relax, give the game some time to mature. Go play something else for a while if you need to. EA isn't going to pull the plug anytime soon, it would be fiscally irresponsible to do so. In a year or so, we can all look at this game and get a real feel for how well it handled putting out new content. We can assess how much it improved, or if it didn't improve at all. Will we see the game we all hoped it would be? I truly hope so. Either way, the OP did a nice job creating an intelligent post, there is no reason to ignore him based on his age.

8.7.11 - I missed the first wave by 1 day

Sienar Fleet Systems My Turn: What race stole the plans for the first Death Star?

Thank you for that intelligent breakdown of things. I'm currently a little frustrated since I'm 8.7.11 and I missed the cut off for the first wave today by apparently 1 day. Still the amount of rage going on is kinda ridiculous. People making demands, people calling out BW actions as illegal, threatening cancellations, and generally rage/whining that they aren't in yet. It boggles me to think how many people are reacting to events that they told us were going to happen. They explained that they were going to stagger invites, did everyone think they were lying? Anyway I hope you get in sooner than later...

rolflmao!!!!

This is a standard in the industry. That $5 charge is a pre-order fee, however, it is not separate from the purchase price of the game. Retail cost of the game (Standard Edition) is $59.99. When you put that $5 dollars down the amount you will pay when you pick up your copy is also subtracted by $5. So that final price will be $54.99 (less the $5 you already paid).

I understand your frustration. However, you didn't pay a fee you, paid a down-payment. That $5 is part of the purchase price, not a separate charge for early access. Refunding at this point would be well... pointless.