If you used paypal, your order is not canceled, despite the refund. Check your order status page now. To answer your other question, even if your preorder IS canceled for real, it does not affect your place in line for early access. Stephen Reid has said this MANy times on twitter. Once you enter a pre-order code, there is no way for it to be removed from your account. You will get early access based on the date you entered your code.

That's incorrect. Back when pre-orders were first announced, there was no information at all about how long early access would be. Only that would be staged based on the order in which people placed their preorders. People seem to forget that when pre-orders became available, we didn't know when the launch date would be (not announced until September) or how long early access would be (not announced until October and then changed last week).

I tweeted Stephen Reid to ask if he was still planning on providing more info on US ship dates today, but haven't received a response. Here's his tweet from last night:

Actually, that's untrue. While the 7 day early access was only announced last week, the 5 day early access wasn't announced until like October. Before that we had no information whatsoever on how long early access would be. So the OP is either lying or misremembering. If he pre-ordered on July 21 (first day it was available), the only information we had about early access back then was that it would happen and it would be granted in the order in which people entered their pre-order codes.

This. First-come-first-serve is a practice that has been in place since the dawn of time. Why is it suddenly not fair? When you go to buy an item at a store, do you storm to the front of the line screaming "it's not fair for me to have to wait! I'm paying just as much for this Tickle-me-Elmo as the guy in front of me, why should he get his first?!?!?!" We were told since pre-orders became available that this was how early access would be handled. If it came as a shock to you, that's your fault, not Bioware's. The information has been readily available for months.

Wrong. Bioware stated from the very beginning of pre-orders, back in July, that early access would be staged based on the order in which you entered your pre-order code. It was a part of the pre-order FAQ from the very beginning.

Bet you'd be happy if we just went back to 8-bit graphics.

You don't need your physical copy of the game for early access. You will need it on the 20th in order to continue playing once early access ends, as at that point, you will need to enter your CD Key and set up a subscription option. Know one knows for sure when Walmart will ship CEs, though they still seem to be telling people the 20th. If that's the case, many of us will be without game access for several days and maybe even until after Christmas. Stephen Reid said he would have an update on US retailer shipping later today.

There are two legitimate reasons to be unhappy with the ini editing solution. First of all, we shouldn't have to hack ini files to access a basic game feature. Secondly, we don't know whether or not doing so might be a violation of the TOS/EULA or a bannable offense.

I'm curious about this as well. Everyone saying "this isn't launch" and hoping issues like this will magically be resolved in the next 7 days is deluding themselves.

They are not available yet. Bioware has said they plan to add them in the future.

Stephen Reid tweeted that they are per account.

What question? There's no real question in this thread except maybe "Is modifying the ini file a bannable offense?" As it is, my original post included statements of fact, not questions. AA is not available as a graphics option in preferences and the mysterious "high res" textures that people hinted at in the beta are not enabled.

Only if you hack the ini file, and I'm not convinced of that. When I tried to do as described in this post, my launcher crashed. I had to take the line I added back out of the ini and then the launcher/game worked fine again.

Jaggies everywhere drive me insane. Not sure how you can say it "looks great" like that.

I tried that and it crashed as soon as I loaded the launcher. Had to take it back out and then launcher/game loaded fine. Also, player's shouldn't be expected to hack INI files to get a basic game feature that every other game already includes in the options/preferences.

How was I misleading?

So, AA didn't make it into launch. I have to say, that's incredibly disappointing. It also looks like the "high definition textures" people talked about in Beta didn't make it in either. It seems pretty ridiculous that a 2011 (almost 2012) game doesn't have anti-aliasing!

Stephen Reid has repeated many times that 11/2 date doesn't mean anything. Your access to EA will be determined by when you entered your pre-order code. You can ignore that 11/2 date, it was apparently for something internal and EVERYONE shows they exact same date.