Early Access 'Waves' - Updating Here

[dancodan]

Yay, I pre-ordered last week, I bet I will be in next wave!!!

[Asheru]

I preordered the 21st of july starting to once again become frustrated...><

[ChetChelios]

Is there anyway they could send out the emails today of when we are possibly going to be getting in I got up this morning at 4am pacific thinking the servers would just be up for anyone who preordered. I don't really want to get up tomorrow morning at 4 just to be disappointed again. If they could send out an email saying hey your getting in on this date at this time I think that would calm down some of the nerd rage.

[Aiyakido]

from twitter:

 

If you were not invited during today's invites, don't worry! We will continue to invite more people as Early Game Access continues.

[BombayAGoGo]

Poor Bioware, they have to deal with stupid people who can't do anything but QQ.

Bioware can't fail, remember that

[TrulyHeroic]

Hello everyone!

 

We've recreated this thread, as it has exceeded 1,000 posts. Please continue the discussion here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=4196

 

Thank you!

 

I think your about 2000 posts late with that! sit here for about 20 mins, we will be back up to 1000+ again, don't worry, though if you wish for the spamming to stop, get a computer and manaually send invites to everyone posting, as we are all active and ready to play!!!!

[Serens]

Your ad here.

[soporificsith]

This anticipation will make it that much better...It's like losing your virginity all over again!

[Gunnaur]

I said a month ago that early access wouldn't matter. If you get in on day one you will still need to reroll later to play with friends that can't get on your server.

 

Same thing happened with Warhammers release.

[Mungo]

 

Will people who pre-order physical copies of the Game still qualify for Early Game Access before the Game’s launch?

 

Yes. Early Game Access is available to everyone who pre-orders Star Wars: The Old Republic and redeems their Pre-Order Code prior to the launch of the Game.

 

Does pre-ordering affect my chances of being accepted into the Game Testing Program for Star Wars: The Old Republic?

 

No, pre-ordering the Game in no way affects your chances of gaining entrance to the Game Testing Program. However, the sooner you redeem your Pre-Order Code the sooner you will be eligible to gain Early Game Access.

 

How will I be notified when Early Game Access begins?

 

You will be informed via an email sent to the email address registered to the Star Wars: The Old Republic account against which you have redeemed a Pre-Order Code. Emails will only be sent to accounts which have redeemed a Pre-Order Code. The start of Early Game Access will also be announced via the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website.

 

Doesn't say anywhere in there about waves or ques for EGA. Its off the FAQ of this very site. EGA starts the 13th December so then why am I being looked over and people getting into the EGA who only registered a few weeks ago when I did mine in July?

 

As launches go this is the worst I have ever seen.

[Dislox]

SWTORThe Old Republic

 

 

 

 

 

Don't worry, there are still more invites coming today! We will announce when the next wave is sent.

 

qoute from twitter!!!

[Lyon]

So much hate, I didn't expect to get in the first day, or even the third. But after seeing the only 4 waves a day thing, I can jump in on that wagon I guess. At the rate they're going, if they went in monthly order, anyone who ordered in August can expect to play on the 19th. Lololol.

 

This post is slightly sarcastic. Personally am not mad or anything really, just saying what appears to be the case at the moment anyways.

[CreZz]

it's still funny how i spent so much time on BF3 and Skyrim yet now they dont draw me over ....... guess ill smoke another spliif and let this be

[Priah]

The Old Republic @SWTOR

 

Don't worry, there are still more invites coming today! We will announce when the next wave is sent.

[PollyGod]

I wonder how long ppl will post after 4th wave is out? will there be a break till waves start tomorrow or will it go non stop ? tune in next wave lol

[oleum]

page 10...

[Mazzrad]

Only 4 waves today... I hope they are kidding...

[DarthLordB]

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.

 

Well said Freak, however this doesn't change my opinion or make it any less valid on my 296ish post on the other thread.

[huyrawr]

i pre-ordered 12-12-11

 

I didn't notice we would be getting early access when we pre-order till was this late lol

 

I've been so hype yesterday when downloading the game... i sat by my computer all day yesterday till this morning waiting for the game to finish downloading...

 

I misread the early access thing... i thought it said early access 5-7 days; didnt know it might be only 1 day early access .

 

HYPE = GONE

[Pronugget]

this makes me LAWL

[cyquatic]

7/23 and still no early access, I must be the last one.

 

Wrong. 7/21 and no early access so you're not the last by a longshot.

[zaoo]

I'm just annoyed that they didn't tell us that it would be done in waves when we pre-ordered.

[_Foy]

I was sincerely hoping that the first day of EGA would let in at least the first week of pre-orders... well... here's to hoping I make it in tomorrow.

[Vayda]

Get WORK and stop complaining about early access.

 

This isn't OCCUPY STWOR.

 

lol, this

 

 

To say what one dumb OWS person said:

 

I deserve Early access because I deserve it!

 

But seriously, I'm just excited to be able to play this much anticipated game and if I have to wait until later today or tomorrow to do so, oh well, I have work to do anyway so its cool.

[thoktaz]

First!