Thank you for your time and patience. I will keep my fingers cross:)

I believe that I was asking him and not you. Please reserve any further comments for when/if they are wanted.

So you would say that a Sept 8 purchase and entering should be in game tomorrow?

Thats is what was being said with the 2 fires of last week. 1) Gamestop was out of PO codes. BW replied that there are far more copies release then have been sold. They also implies that DO copies were exempt from the numbers 2) Amazon stated that it may take until Jan 9th (or 19th) to get all hard copies in hand.

I think that there is going to be some issues on the 20th and 25th. 20th being official launch and 25 being Christmas.

Yep. They should be the ones to piss and moan the most. Hell, at that point, there was point in PO in the first place. I think that is what will flame them the worst.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Oh how I hope that no one plans to stealing my toons name GeorgeMucus or my backup plan HungSolo

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You beat me too it!!! LOL! You are right, it is not free play, it was an incentive to purchase the product. And a lot of us did put down $5 as a promise to purchase the full game once available, in return, Bioware offered the incentive. For the ones that canT comprehend that, may G-d have mercy on you if/when (going with a very big IF) you ever buy a car or home.

100% agreement! I would have accepted if they told me I wouldnt be able to play until the 19th. Atleast I would know. (Sept 8 pre-ordered and entered)

I shudder at the thought. I understand that physical copies may take up to Jan 9th, or was it the 19th, to arrive. Atleast thats was Amazon said. Bioware also stated that there would be no grace period (dont know if that is still true). I am glad that I bought the digital copy on this one. I feel for the ones that pre-ordered in June or July and are going to have to wait till mid Jan to play.

I dont think there would be as much flaming against Bioware if they kept to what they stated before that if the servers were looking good, which they are, that they would continue to invite players to join. Bioware stopped at 2:00 pm and basically said too bad, you will have to wait another 18 hours to see if your hopes are true or false. Its the lack of communication that is what bothers most. If they said "Purchases/Pre-orders made up to July 27th will get in on the 13th. July 28th to August 21 will get the 14th, blah blah blah." But alas, there is no communication. They still could have been very conservative with their assigned dates, and most people would have been accepting. Not knowing, that, that is what is hurting.

^^^^^^^^^^ The last Beta was the stress test. They knew how many people the servers could handle and so forth. Bioware invited a comparatively small number of PO's into the game today. Lunch time came around and that was it. 18 hours for the next wave is a bit excessive. An additional wave every 4-5 hours would be far more appropriate. Also, since the Beta stress test 2 weeks ago, Bioware has had plenty of time to correct some of these server issues such as purchasing new servers or creating more shards per server. Since I am not one of their programmer's of engineers, this however, is pure speculation. What I can say with all honesty is that the communication between Bioware and its player base on this issue has been found wanting. I think Shutting down the forums for four days did not help matters any and IMHO has made matters worse from severing the main line of communication between the 2 parties. I, as a player, am also partially at fault. I guess I maintained certain expectations (or hopes) that EGA invites would have been conducted smoothly.

EGA is another word for soft opening. Think of it as the 20th being the official Grand Opening. So yea, in all reality, the game has launched.

Fail Considering that the servers are running light it is a total failure. Bioware stated that depending on server issues they would invite more players to log on as the days progressed. The stopped issuing invite after 6 waves. It was somewhere around lunch time that the last wave was issued. The next set of invites wont take place until 18 hours later, 8:00 am CST. Here is what the servers look like right now http://www.swtor.com/server-status

Why did you ask the start the thread if all you are going to do is call people stupid the whole damn time?!?!

http://www.swtor.com/server-status Agreed. Here is the server status from a few minutes ago. I really looks overwhelmed to me (Sarcasm)

I will question why I pre-ordered.

/5 char

The answer you are looking for is NOT ENOUGH. At the rate that BW is letting people in, anyone who purchased the game after Aug 1st will be let in after Dec 20th. EA has sold over 2 Million PO. BW has let just 100k of those in. That is only 5% of the PO that have been purchased. If they do 5% a day for the 7 days leading up to official release that would only be about 35% of the PO.

This is like Walmart closing its doors at 2:00 am on Black Friday saying that "we made all the money we projected so we are closing our doors". This does not speak well for the faith that Bioware has in their servers.

I was already searching for that a minute ago lol!

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

I survived the EGA Flame War of 2011 and all I got was a sore ******e from Bioware!