Palonto Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I did not have the money. my birthday was 18 of October so i preorderd and registered the code 19 of October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKWookie Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Didn't get my code entered until Aug 14. Was in Spain with my wife. As much as I love Star Wars I lover her more and wasn't gonna freak out over a game at the time... Hindsight folks.... hindsight lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrachara Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I did not have the money. my birthday was 18 of October so i preorderd and registered the code 19 of October. You realise most retailers other than Origin don't charge you anything until the order is shipped, right? :\ Even Origin only charges 5 dollars/euros/pounds and that isn't really a lot of money to put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KutsuuYami Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Financial situation and uncertainty of performance issues. How many MMO's have we seen rise and fall? Needed a hands on to establish if the potential game of my dreams was worth investment. I'm pleased to say the game has surpassed any previous judgement, although because of this original lack of faith, I'm left waiting for an early access code. Self deprecation ftl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerda Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 You realise most retailers other than Origin don't charge you anything until the order is shipped, right? :\ Even Origin only charges 5 dollars/euros/pounds and that isn't really a lot of money to put together. In the UK it was cheaper to go with any other retailer than buy from Origin with their pre-order fee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senessa Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Looks like a bunch of honest answers. I like this thread.....people being accountable and not complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phinion Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I wanted to wait for a release date to see how long I would wait for the game to start live. Then I did not even order right away because I wanted to see what the game looked like in beta or view videos on Youtube to see if the game appealed to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acog Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I was just extremely sceptical of Biowares whole take on the MMO. I thought that things like dialogue choices in questing where going to be very meh. The only MMO i had tried prior to this that had a dialogue tree in its quests was Age of Conan's 1-20 experience and it was awful. When I saw how the dialogue trees would work in group play ( some dev video from like almost a year) I was down right horrified. Some of the early gameplay videos also didn't particular motivate me. But I kept a eye on it. Got in the weekend beta in early Nov, and it completely won me over. I have been eating crow for two months now over all the negative things I thought and said about this game. So didn't pre-order till the 27th of Nov. after I got the wife in the big beta weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlas Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I told myself that I was done with MMO's after WoW. Played solid from launch day. Then I really started paying attention to SWTOR. In short got suckered in Cant wait to play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krosh Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Preordered 21st July, GAME didnt sent out codes till the beginning of August. Thank you GAME. I am the 99% that didnt get in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keevae Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) Because I by default do not pre-order games I am not sure I will play, especially when it comes to MMOs. Since I did not get into beta until 25th November I was not willing to potentially "waste" money. I'm the kind of customer that companies hate, because I do not blindly buy everything that has flashy adverts. I patiently waited since Feb 2010 for beta to see whenever I will commit to the game or not. Those few days now waiting for Early Access/Official Launch don't really seem all that much. Edited December 14, 2011 by Keevae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgroond Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Kept up to date with everything over the years but didn't feel like parting with my cash for a game I hadn't even played, so I thought I'd either wait for a Beta or just risk it sometime after release. Got a Beta invite, enjoyed the gameplay and story, pre-ordered it. For the game, not for the early access. Couldn't care less about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talrol Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I was waiting on monthly pricing. EA Games has a tendency to be expensive, so with their name on it, I was concerned that it would have a monthly sub higher than what I could convince my wife was worth me playing it I finally convinced her to let me order on 9/20 prior to learning the monthly fees when she was convinced I was going to play regardless anyway. Therefore....I'm throwing my wife under the bus in this case, it's her fault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka_matrix_pwner Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 couldn't afford it. a friend bought it for me in august. that was so cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilforge Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I was doing a bunch of college prep stuff and didn't learn the game was up for pre-order 'till the first of august. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohraTon Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Knew about the game and always intended to play it, I just simply didn't read enough to realise it was based on first come first serve. As far as I was concerned, pre-order equalled the same early access as day 1 pre-orders. When I did i had to wait till i was paid so im a November pre-orderer But, i'm sure i'll get something, so im not too fussed, i never expected more than 2 or 3 days at the most anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elektrohexe Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The early footage of this game wasn't promising. The graphics and animations were pretty bad then and Bioware had not long released the infamous Dragon Age 2. I was understandably hesitant to preorder, but I was pleasantly suprised when I finally got to play a bit of beta. I'm not the only one, who was 'slightly' disappointed with DA:2? Anyway, I and some friends decided to wait for the launch or buy it even thereafter. Happened that I got some Beta code from Bioware's community board (still playing Mass Effect 2 ^^) and redeemed it. Got invited and enjoyed playing both weekends and did my Pre-order in between. So I don't mind if I get 1 up to 5 'additional' days as I'll be playing at the 20th of December nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonofaGun Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) I was told 3 days for standard edition and 6 days of early access for collector's edition, I preordered the standard edition but tried to get a CE from my local shop, figuring the 3-6 days clause was still in play I didn't redeem my code because I wanted to get me a CE, but then I was told 5 days early access no matter which version so I redeemed the code, it was November. Of course I listened to the local shops advertisements and hardly ever logged in to the SW: TOR website, so I kinda put this on myself and got what I deserved Edited December 14, 2011 by SonofaGun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mArchangel Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Australian - was waiting for information on wether or not I could buy an amazon copy and still get to play. Oh and spent some time rather upset with being called a redzoner when I thought our countries were military allies. Basically - all my own fault. Same. Subscribe 100%. Lack of info and the lack of consideration for the colonial part of the anglo-american/european 1st world (THANKS FOR EXCLUDING US BTW>the only really bad thing tbh about SWTOR). So I could not commit 2xRRP for a game I was not even sure I could access. I am delighted that I can and that I had access to the BETA. However you guys need to have us all in by the 15th-otherwise this is utter rubbish and a semi-failure. Especially since the grace period has been removed or was never there. THAT is actually a complete other kettle of fish and I just realised another really bad thing. For some reason I cannot help myself but think that this is not grown on Bioware's/LucasArts' pile but must be another EA atrocity. Sigh.....counting the hours. See you all online soon-hopefully. Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minrose Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I was waiting for confirmation that Origin would not be linked to the launcher. Then I effectively forgot about it for awhile, found the confirmation and pre-ordered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBlake Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Anyone thinks that people that redeemed their code in the first half of august will get in today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubmaster Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The last three MMOs i pre-ordered (Warhammer, Age of Conan, FF XIV) where failures I regretted preordering in the end (with FF XIV being a complete trainwreck). Because of that I grew cautious. Bioware made great games in the past but by no means perfect ones especially from a technical standpoint. There was no way for me to know if SWTOR would be great or even good or a complete failure like so many MMOs in the past since WoW. So I decided to wait until I got a chance to play. I did play it, liked it and pre-ordered. I really love Bioware but I am not a fanboy who blindly pre-orders something on day one just because he WANTS the game to be good. Not after the many, many big-name failures in the last years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandur Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Anyone thinks that people that redeemed their code in the first half of august will get in today? I hope so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeviuosOne Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I bought the game from a local eb games and they never gave me a code, and i never realized I needed it at first. When I did it took a few weeks to get it so i never got the code in till the first week of sept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christhesithlord Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I genuinely would like to know why we all didn't order sooner. For me it was a matter of performance. I was a long time beta tester and in each build up until stress test weekend my FPS was poor. I didn't want to pre-order a game that I wasn't sure would run well. Eventually it did get fixed. I was well aware of the "up to 5 days" clause. So I'm not complaining. Whats your excuse? not knowing of the first come first serve thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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