'The Harbinger' on the US West Coast was where a fair amount of the Australian guilds were deployed and thus is pretty much the unofficial Australian server. The secondary PVE server is 'The Jekk'Jekk Tarr' which is also US West Coast. As far as PVP servers goes, 'The Swiftsure' is where Australian PVP guilds were deployed (US West Coast) All of the above information is available on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&key=0ApTWvw8Y4QNHdFdPWTYwY0hObFV0ZzMyakRHRkQ5bmc&output=html Which came from the Southern Cross Guild facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Cross-Gamers-Southern-Cross-Gaming-Guild/113102332072001

There is a customer service number in America/Canada and Europe....but it would probably be cheaper and more entertaining to dial an international sex line You can try using the below form for support: http://www.swtor.com/support/form

Hate to use World of Warcraft as an example, but it's the casuals that pretty much pay the bills. http://blog.raptr.com/2010/12/17/raptr-world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-report-top-11-of-players-generate-50-of-total-playtime-hours/

Not everyone chooses to spend 20 hours a week on what ultimately is entertainment that one pays for.

Whilst your average gamer is playing TOR in between other priorities such as work, kids or other things that take up time. http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/games/blogs/screenplay/gamers-getting-older-20110615-1g45f.html

Everyone's a winner, baby?

I got my physical copy from Amazon, got it on the 19th. Of course, you could ask someone to download the client and transfer it to your hard drive and run it from there (I don't know where you are based so if this isn't an option feel free to ignore it). When you run the client you will put in all your account information in the client launcher login

As long as there is a server called 'Mon Calamari' something so I can make "Chuck some Mon Calamari on the barbie" jokes!

Oh I plan to be Inebriated all right. Yes, I can see that it will be a contributing factor for getting wiped on operations/raids, it's why I plan to group with friends who can laugh about the experience and not be all 100% focused on the end result (Your mileage may vary) Grouping people on the internet is like herding cats who can talk back.

I'll take your word for it Xenofell. I have never played WOW so I can't compare it to something I have never experienced. Being in Australia I'm used to delays in all facets of life

Fair enough point AlkalineKitten. I plan to group with friends for endgame once the Oceania servers are implemented. As I have never played WOW, I have no basis of comparison to go off here. For those used to a different mechanic and timing, I acknowledge it would be finger nails on blackboard jarring.

Neither you or I have decent data in front of us Vindor, so we can't comment with any certainty. Are the 100,000+ views unique users?

The market will dictate the outcome Vindor. If it is really a huge issue then subs will drop like a stone and Bioware will have to move quick to fix it. I'd rather not listen to first world problems. Everybody wins!

I will be doing storyline quests long before I even think of PVP (I'm not wired that way, Team Fortress 2 is probably the only online game against opponents I play as I have local servers...so dying is due to my own stupidity ) When the financial reports for Electronic Arts come out July next year I will be looking at the costs of SW:TOR, if only to have a reasonable figure of the damn cost of this MMORPG Thank you for your reasoned response.

Make or break is a pretty bold claim. It's important for PVP.....but this is hardly a FPS where the delay means death. For people like me who are PVE it's a bit annoying but hardly game breaking, as I have the story to look forward to. For some of the older folk who are playing this for the story/universe and wouldn't know rotations if you hit them with it, it's a non issue as their reflexes mean they don't mash keys like crazy. Since I already have 400ms latency playing from Australia, I'm used to it. This reminds me of Critical hits for Batman: Arkham City, I could never get the timing right which would result in dying all the time, so yeah, I ended up mashing the left mouse button. Until I have raw numbers of how many cancel their sub due to this issue, I'm going to refrain from commenting much