Ok, starting now I am reporting everyone who posts that TL;DR 40 guildmates guy's post as spam, it hurts my eyes and it serves no purpose other than your vanity.

No, it's a deposit towards the price of the final game and securing a copy. It is deducted from the final price. If it wasn't, you retailer ripped you off.

Rift had like 100k active subscriptions on the first day. If you want to call it an achievement, feel free, but I don't think it is.

It is not namecalling if I don't specify who I'm talking about. Even defamation laws work like this. If you feel I'm talking about you - that's your problem. I might and I might not. Personally, I don't feel the need of flaming any specific person or group, especially the group that is against this system, because some of them have actually valid points and I recognize them as such. In other words, some of the people who are not fond of this form of early access are whiny kids, some are not. I leave it to you to guess which are which.

It's still whining, he just used more words. Guys, you got what you paid for, nothing more, nothing less. And it started two days before it should. If some friends got separated because of the staggering - that's not Bioware's fault. You knew this could happen and you could have bought the game together. I simply fail to see where the problem is. They came out with this plan ages ago, they explained it, everyone accepted it when they bought the game (whether they cared enough to read about it or not) and now they're rolling it even more smoothly than planned. Sure, you can argue that the system itself is not good (I, for one, like it very much), but all your arguments and whining are null and void because you agreed to this (whether you know it or not) and nothing will change it now.

I think they're listening, they just chose to ignore it. I wouldn't listen to a bunch of whiny kids too.

Yes, but it's not that easy to calculate. Maybe we'll know more tommorrow, today is still a bit of an enigma until all the time zones go through their rush hours. Also, imagine the QQ if Bioware said "august to sept on dec 14" and then they miscalculated and the servers went awol. That's why they're playing this slow and easy.

Yeah. Instead there will be "OMG SIHT WAR IS SO OP DIS GAEM IZ BORKEN"

Obviously, you didn't go to a movie premiere.

Yes, just imagine that when you go to a museum and stand in line, they don't let people according to the line but a lottery. Yeah, sounds fair, after all, everyone paid the same.

It would be a lot more complicated for BW to check, given that a lot of retailers sell this game. Imagine all the sending of scans of the receipts to BW.

Then an intelligent person may deduce that, given the number of preorders, "first come, first serve" may take some time. Then they changed the wording so that an intelligent person was no longer needed to comprehend it. Apparently, they didn't change it enough.

Check the swtor.com page. Also, everyone here knows what they are talking about, they didn't feel the need to be precise because everyone knows it's about EGA. If you're going to pick holes in that then you really have no life.

Actually, no.

The first EGA threads were closed because of exceeding a number of posts. It clearly states that at the last post, what's there not to understand? Also, what is this thread about? Hugging puppies?

The EGA has launched. The word "launch" is not really used only for one thing you know.

November here and I'm happy with this system.

There was a Bioware e-mail somewhere around here from July stating that they will let people in the EGA on this basis. I won't look it up, but I also saw information about this half a year ago.

And that's exactly why. Why should you stand in line to a museum, when some people are already inside? You paid the same amount of money as them!

I hear that in America one can get pretty far with this, suing McDonalds for spilled coffe and such. The point about being an idiot still stands though.

Actually, that information was available since July.

I can certainly live without some whiners. I think Bioware will survive it too.

Yes, and if you actually read it completely, it says "up to 5 days". If not, change your retailer.

Have you guys heard about monitoring server activity? Most people with invitation in some timezones didn't even log in yet.

Yeah. Don't join any estabilished MMO then, they have years of head start there!