Even though I havent been granted access yet I feel like the staggered EGA process was clever and made for a very smooth EGA launch, however it seems to me that it is completely pointless in the long run. Either the servers are ready for a mad launch or they are not, EGA isnt going to change that for anyone. We will all have been playing for a few days going great, and then on the 20th BOOM queues everywhere while the masses join up.
Most games arent predominately preorders and I dont expect SWTOR to be an exception, EGA is just letting us in to play for a week before the queues show up and we all get cluster****ed anyway.