Castlefield Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Quote me if you like tacos. I used to like tacos, but then I took an arrow to the knee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alundo Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthVanu Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Chuck norris probly got his early release on the 12th Chuck Norris Jokes /start Chuck Norris has already completed every mission, flashpoint, and Op......with every class........solo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookiechewb Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 when can one be a wookie? comon expac lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypherdias Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 SWTOR The Old Republic Don't worry, there are still more invites coming today! We will announce when the next wave is sent. from twitter.now if they could give an idea how long the waves will go for... maybe all day long into the night even.. i do remember they went and said the ultra stress test was over 2 million people. so they should beable to handle the stress but yeah i kinda agree with the tryingt o get people out of the start areas so the next batc h arent crowded.. i mean it would suck if all it was was a sea of bodies trying to kill a claw slug and you had to waid 30 min to get just 1 when you need 5 This is from twitter. So no it will not be going all day long or into the night even. The Old Republic @SWTOR Close The third wave of Early Game Access emails have been sent, one more to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sildoor Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I take it that me who did put my code in the 5th december will have to w8 a couple of days then damn it why dident I preorder earlier .. will have to powerlevel to catch up to my friends and clan.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tormentuk Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 This is the most fail launch of a mmo todate, half my friends sat in servers playing alone or waiting for other freinds to be able to connect. This is not a mmo, its a SOLO RPG........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BabzMayne Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 this is horrible you mean *********** awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinado Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) its funny to see people posting here and relating what they write with their avatar choice. Everytime I saw "calm down, this is a bonus, I am calm and happily waiting for the launch, hummmmmmmmmm" it was from someone with a Jedi avatar. Sith avatars cry their heart out. Bounty hunters troll. This is funny. By the way since you all care for my opinion, I am going Sith so I can destroy democracy since we are too dumb to have it! Edited December 13, 2011 by Kinado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joko Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 So where is my access I entered my code on the 21st july yet others that entered their codes after that date are in and playing??????? spam folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muse- Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Let's be clear. They said 5 days earlier. I paid for that. By the 15th of december at 00:00 I should be playing. I don't care if your servers are exploding, you should have organized everything for this. If you didn't, then you shouldn't have sold pre-orders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock-Shard Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Open wave 4 already lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infythegreat Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Several messages asking me to re-post since the old thread locked right after I original put it up... Okay, so I've admittedly become a little incensed and as a result inflammatory in some of my attempts to try and shed a little light on this situation. Do I work for Bioware? No, and as such you shouldn't take any of this as gospel. But I am a relatively intelligent human being who does work in the IT industry and has for many years, and as such am capable of some informed conjecture that many of you might find illuminating. I fully expect a large portion of the current complainers to dismiss this out of hand, but that's okay. Somebody will read this and go "Oh, that makes sense". That person will make this post a success. The first point, and to me the most obvious, is that nobody should feel entitled to get into early access today. Why? Because it wasn't promised to you. The marketing for Early Access clearly stated that you would be guaranteed "Up to five days" of early access. That's not "guaranteed five days earlier than everyone else", it's "guaranteed a chance to play early, possibly as early as five days before launch". It's much akin to when you hear an advertisement on television or the radio for a sale, and they say "up to 15% off selected items". You don't then walk into the store, pick out something marked down by 5% and then complain that they advertised falsely, do you? Of course not. Everybody understands the concept of "up to". Please note that the advertising was always worded this way, it hasn't changed, and anybody who tells you different is trying to justify their anger and/or trolling you. Furthermore...we're seven days away from launch, not five days. Things went so well during the beta weekends that Bioware felt it was safe to move up the Early Access start date by two days. That's an extra possible two days of early play...this is a Very Good Deal and you're punishing Bioware by raising such a fuss about it. Moving on. Many people are incensed that Bioware is trickling people onto the servers, as opposed to just throwing the doors open and allowing everyone who pre-ordered to simply jump online. Many of you are stating that Biowares infrastructure should already be in place and tested, that if they're afraid of letting everyone on at the same time for Early Access, then its a dire portent of things to come on launch day. There's a few things you need to understand about this. Firstly, it is highly unlikely that Bioware will see more new purchases on launch day than pre-orders. Remember, most of those who have been chomping at the bit for this game pre-ordered, either for Early Access or simply to make sure to secure their copies in case their local retailer becomes sold out. There are six months worth of pre-order customers that they need to allow into Early Access. Thats a lot of people. I don't remember the actual number but it's huge, well beyond what they will see on their very first day of regular box sale. The majority of the launch frenzy will be spread out over the coming weeks, especially with Christmas looming so near. Try and understand, that even with all of the stress-testing that Bioware did during the beta, they really have no way of knowing how well their live-production servers are going to handle all of these users. Or the new client; remember, this is a new client that was just made available for pre-download a week ago. And it's really not even the servers, more so their own network infrastructure, that they are likely worried about. Trickling 600,000 people onto a network is a big deal. Routers and switches burn out, individual drives in storage clusters randomly freeze up and need replacing. A million and one things can go wrong, and it would be highly irresponsible of Bioware to simply throw the doors open and hope they can handle whatever explosion of suck it causes. Stephen Reid has pointed out that they have no proper way of knowing how often waves of users will be allowed onto the servers. This is absolutely understandable; they're monitoring things very closely to see how well they perform, and gaining useful metrics about individual servers as the day progresses. You must understand that the word "server" is ubiquitous. "Anchorhead" is one game server...but it is made up of several if not many physical servers in a distributed cluster. They need to know the expected capacities for their PvE and PvP servers, see how fast they're filling up, see how well they perform, and add/remove physical servers to the distributed system as necessary. Again, it would be very irresponsible of them not to do this. Its kind of like when you stand in line at the grocery store. They have one checkout open -- and as they observe their shoppers, their patterns and turnover, they close and open additional checkout lanes as necessary. The other option is to risk either having everyone waiting forever in one line, or have everything wide open and end up with baggers and checkers standing around doing nothing...or to translate the analogy, wasting resources that they need to keep tight control of in order to provide continued stability in their infrastructure leading in to the future. Please, try and be understanding and patient. The amount of organization and manpower that goes in to something like this is enormous. They're doing a very good job of not making the same mistakes most MMO's make at launch, and they're going to be able to provide us with a much more stable gaming experience early on because of it. Edited December 13, 2011 by Sejia excessive font size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amadei Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Dear Bioware.... Please reimburse me for the day of work I missed. Thanks Yeah i took the day off for early access and have been sitting at my pc for 5 hours waiting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Febibi Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Dear Bioware.... Please reimburse me for the day of work I missed. Thanks "up to 5 days" you took a gamble that you would be playing without a guarentee first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThassiusUK Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I didn't pre-order until earlier this month (December). See you in-game in 2013 folks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akaito Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Don't bother just saying "I'm in." Tell us when your code redemption was. Mine is 08.06.2011Not in yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDSVictory Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I am an eggplant... plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorief Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 7/24/2011 perorder date...when will it be mine turn!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashlotte Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 July 25th, 2011 pre-ordered and code entered. Collector's Edition, Amazon. Florida, USA(sad, I know). No invitation as of yet. IF they include EVERYONE from July it would seem very fair. WHY they are inviting people from September-December is beyond me. Seriously, before the naysayers and those with their thumbs up their asses speak, let me say that it truly is not fair... Priorities, people, priorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaundice Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I just want to play....So, I wait and hope. I hope its tomorrow I took the next 3 days off:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirusX Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Its almost like no one saw the. "You MAY play up to 5 days early." They up the ante to 7 days and still people complain. If you took time off of work for this and expected it, that's your own fault for being ignorant.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaeridLock Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I don't really care either way when I get in, I'm just grateful to have early access, either way I was going to pay for the game so it's not big deal. I just find it curious that Bioware would give reason for haters to hate by not sticking to what they're announcing. For example, they announced that early game access will be given based on when you redeemed your code, yet I see people who redeemed pretty much from day one of pre-order still waiting while some others I know personally who redeemed in like late August have already gotten their notice for access. Like I said, thanks Bioware for giving us fanboys early access but...why would you fuel the haters that way? Very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abchurch Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 You should stream theme music off of the SWTOR facebook page while you wait: http://www.facebook.com/starwarstheoldrepublic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrollTroll Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 SPAM! \o/ EDIT: o and plz gief access! Please stop spamming this thread I am waiting for an invite. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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