September 2nd reporting for duty I'd be pleasantly surprised if I got in today! Tomorrow is much more realistic.

I think it's fair. It's an awesome gesture to red zoners that weren't able to purchase the DDE via Origin. Besides, if someone that purchased the SE wants to spend another $19.99, it's their choice and has no adverse reaction on anyone else except the buyer's wallet.

Not true. I've had RDD on both of my CEs (going to different addresses on different ends of my state) since they offered it on October 2nd. Many people on the game's forum at Amazon are updating that their CEs now have RDD, as are people at reddit and other sites. It may be restricted to US orders only, just FYI.

Just checked my Gmail, and the e-mail about release date delivery was sent by Amazon on October 2nd. I will admit that RDD was NOT available to anyone before that date. Saying that it wasn't available to anyone until today is a lie, however. The reason why some people may have been locked out of release date delivery has to do with A) how close you are to an Amazon fulfillment center, B) if Amazon knows (like, 100% sure) they can get your package to your address in the time allotted, C) they have enough stock. This happens on other very high profile releases, not just SW:TOR.

Actually, the release date e-mail was sent out in early October. A lot of people had their dates changed from the 20th to a later date after the fact. Mine's always been on release date shipping, so no problems on my end. That said, it seems Amazon might have the stock (their UK page has a notice that they have stock and are planning on shipping). Nothing on the US site