Esaru Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) *** I was AFK for like 30 seconds and there's 25 new pages ::|:|:|:|:|:| edit: wow, W.T.F. is bleeped out, that's a little sad Edited December 13, 2011 by Esaru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Letalmachine Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The Old Republic SWTOR The Old Republic The final wave of emails have been sent. We will be sending another wave tomorrow starting at 8am CST. 2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntRosa Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The final wave of emails have been sent. We will be sending another wave tomorrow starting at 8am CST. weak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkiez Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 the epicness of this thread is epic just wanted to be a part of it though im still raging over how im not in early access!!!! epic bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fendril_Tharkun Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Hi folks, Well i see that many are frustrated and i was also dissapointed to not being able to play the game right away. Well honestly i know i ll be able to play it pretty soon. You know i had several experiences of game launches the last years in the MMO world and none of them was perfect or strange. basically you can choose between pest or cholera. from a players point of view, not only being able to access the game is important, but even more the balancing of one's server is VERY important. Granting full flight access to the game providing enough servers to rush that led in one game launch to two very ugly things: 1. tons of people in the newbie zones and 2. after several weeks, some servers were totaly unbalanced and some already deserted which had to be shut down soon afterwards. (Guess which game that was) Then on another very pretty game from the asian region, they learned from that as it seems and opened the servers slowly and were monitoring the balance and forbid players to choose the side they wanted, if it was already too crowded regarding the balance. OMG imagine the comments on the forums, it was hell, in the end though it served the playerss since afterwards servers were pretty balanced. I could continue the stories but guess what none of them was pretty from a first day gaming experience point of view. The idea from EA for having early access and granting that in waves, i do understand that as a prevention of overcrowding in the newbie regions too extremely, and secondly monitoring the required capacities, which (as a computer scientist myself i know can be pretty ugly) i'd rather do carefully then badly. So the basic idea of letting people in in waves sounds like a very good idea. critics on this aprroach are clearly: provide an ETA, you knew in advance how many preorders you had, so based on the huge amounts of beta testers you should be able to do at least an educated guess when you will open the access for players, regardless of your monitoring. We are speaking of days, not hours. secondly, i would presume this whole feature of wave access with whatever launch reasoning behind the idea to provide as much of a nice launch experience as possible, should be "standard" and expected in nowadays mmo launches. If you are already using us with this early access thing to get it smootly done, don't charge extra 5€ and let us wait without any time guess at all. Regards Edited December 13, 2011 by Fendril_Tharkun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stantp Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 plz plz plz ask for a refund Oh God I'd love to see someone try and pull something that stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabouT Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) BW and fanboys... honestly.. what did u expect from this ?! lol.. first not telling us exact start dates, then saying UP to 5 days, then extending to 7 days, then telling us minutes from their "waves-plan" what they actually planned and going to do... now they invited like 10% maybe from all head-starts... so what do u mean by u not understand why we are upset ? Edited December 13, 2011 by kabouT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustane Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Good job Bioware, look at all the happy costumers. Tempted to give it one more day and just ask for a refund and buy another game :/. Don't like this kind of costumer treatment. You sad people are the 1% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbandonedCause Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Final wave has officially been sent as per the twitter account. they start up again tomorrow at 8am CST....remember people CST....not your time.... CST.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heffernanx Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Could you rename your Company to Bioscam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calene Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 From the official tweet: The final wave of emails have been sent. We will be sending another wave tomorrow starting at 8am CST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beslley Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The good news is that by cancelling your preorder you did nothing for your early access....and you will still get the invite because you already entered your pre-order code. But let me get this straight....if by cancelling your pre-order as a protest to not getting 7 full days of early access (when you were promised at least 1 only) you are hoping that by starting later - 20th or later- you will somehow be magically ahead of everyone else? Cancelling preorders by not getting into early access has to be the most illogical and....well....dumbest thing I have ever seen...in..my...life. Which is saying alot because I have dealt with a lot of stupid people. Life isnt fair. You wont be level 1 with everyone else in SWTOR land level 50. Get a grip. ppl are so stupid If I cancel my preorder (I'm giving them another day to sort this stuff out) then it's to prove a point. The communication of all this was terrible. Telling people extremely late that it would be staggered, never giving us a general date for our waves, etc. The whole thing seems very haphazard. And Origin has been up and down for the past several hours on top of all that. If I cancel my preorder, it will be to say "I like your game, but your release was ****. I'm not afraid to put my money where my mouth is. You do something this stupid again and I'm gone, no matter how much I like your game." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackrJakz Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Sooooooooooooooo lame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorrnn Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Just posting to say that I am also cancelling my pre-order. What little faith I had left in Bioware/EA was destroyed today. Today was the first time I heard about 'waves' for early access - this really should of been stated when I handed over my money for the pre-order. I pre-ordered to get a head start on the masses of idiots that populate launch days - and thats my perogative as a paying customer. Add this to the fact that the servers arn't actually ready for launch and they're using the early access as another stress test, and I think I'll leave it six months and see what state the game is in then. I was willing to forgive its shortcomings until today, and I've figured out that I'm just not that desperate to play it. Back to Skyrim for now. Haha just cause you didn't get in on day 1 of the added extra two days of early access.....good less whiny people around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Conan Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Quote: Originally Posted by fishboyy i just want to know why no-one seems concerned that the servers are all full now and the people currently playing right now will mostly still be playing tomorrow, so what happens tomorrow? they only let in 20% the amount of people of today? and the 15th will be worse because people have already booked it off, so its going to get exponentially smaller the amount of invites per day, the only way around it is to open more servers and if they have to do that theres no difference in opening them now or later, it makes no sense to me. I think its probably because full is a relative term when they can just increase server capacity by opening more planetary instances. A big ol' *** to this. Either that spells HUGE trouble coming or limited servers up today. Maybe they only have like one small hub up.....if its all full and they haven't even gotten to the people who pre-ordered in early August then wow....*** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnumCougar Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Well, I redeemed my code in December. So, that means I'm probably in Wave 43 or so... see you all in-game! I'm kidding about being in Wave 43. I don't really know if it is going to go that high... Just hoping to play by the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucklebutt Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Last invite was sent. Have fun waiting for the 20th, those of you who didn't get in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barraka Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Here we go...LIES Sounds like Sony again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andbax Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 why? Why not keep sending emails out? Why didn't you just tell us when we would get by email not the you "might"? this ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kfxtech Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 The final wave of emails have been sent. We will be sending another wave tomorrow starting at 8am CST. If i dont get in tommorow from my pre-order code August 8th, 2011. BW will lose a customer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psysention Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Invitation to Play the Game Early Starting December 13, 2011, 7:00AM EST (Pacific: December 13th, 4:00AM PST; European: December 13th, 12:00PM GMT, 1:00PM CET), The Old Republic will begin emailing invitations to start your Early Game Access. Invitations will be sent throughout the Early Game Access period offering rolling access to the game in the order in which you redeemed your Pre-Order Code, so be sure to check your email inbox! now read carefully or they might have to break it down Barney style for you....throughout means 24/7 it does not say on a daily basis, it says throughout starting today....enough with the only 4 waves per day. the person who created this post claims more invites will sent on wednesday read stickies before post fanboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iszzyp Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 what time do invites start tomorrow?! 8 am as stated on twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeytt Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 well great now 5/5 of my buddys are in thc bioware again.Looks like we are going solo.Once again worst launch ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sithlegendary Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Is it over??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Areshko Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 SloWw pokes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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