Early Access 'Waves' - Updating Here

[DannyBe]

I will wait patiently until i'm in and i'm going to enjoy my next mmorpg.

[Jenslyn]

Eh guys... try to enter your profiles. I'm pretty damn sure I entered my preorder code, but still it tells me that I need to enter it now! What the hell :/

[DaemonlordBlood]

Waves.. just another way to make more people mad. You did the stress tests for a reason I imagine, quit being *****es and just open the servers and let pre-orders play.

[Darklathia]

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

[haPi]

PLEASE start a new thread and LOCK it so we can occationally check back for updates without wading through 100's of pages of whinners!

 

Dev Tracker is your friend.

[MrKarp]

I used to think that the arrow to the knee jokes were not funny, till I took an arrow to the knee

 

Haha it takes 10 pages to quote me, LOVE THIS. better than TV

[LilithPaige]

SWTOR The Old Republic

The third wave of Early Game Access emails have been sent, one more to go!

 

 

SWTOR The Old Republic

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

 

 

Make your bloody mind up please

[Cyant]

Cant wait to be killed by lvl 50's on day one on neutral planets even tho I pre-registered my code on august 6th.

[ProteusXeos]

Friends who pre-ordered far after me have invites, I don't. But they live on the east coast and I live on the west... i assume geography is also a factor here?

[TheDreadPirate]

Early Game Access was supposed to be 5 days early

 

They made it 7 days early as a treat, not a requirement

 

suck it up and wait

 

To everyone whining about "WAAAAAAAAAH I ORDERED MY 57 MINUTES BEFORE MY FRIEND AND HE'S IN AND I'M NOT"

 

Just stop. Suck it up. Nobody was even supposed to be in yet.

 

To everyone saying "BIOWARE SUCKS, THIS IS CRAP, IM CANCELLING, I WANT MY MONEY BACK WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

 

Shut up. No you're not. No they don't. Nobody was even supposed to be in yet.

 

Bottom line

 

Everyone just calm down. Its a massive game, you're not a part of the DEV team trying to make it ACTUALLY WORK FOR ALL YOU WHINY PEOPLE.

 

Cut them some slack. Watch a movie or something.

[Kuhboom]

I lol at people who took the day off to play this game. Go to work have a family and know that this game isn't your life. People that take days off to play games disgust me

[sosolidshoe]

The previous thread was so monstrous that effect began to precede cause(quoted posts were showing up two or three pages -after- the reply to them), taking bets on this one also ruining the space-time continuum?

[RaspberryKisses]

i pre-ordered on December 8th and i'm for one as calm as a clam. i know that i will not get in until much later, so relax guys and stop this insanity.

[Innoe]

This launch has been bad from the get go. None and I mean none of the positives outweigh the negatives.

[Abelf]

The hate in this thread is strong.

 

It gives us focus.

[Scithronax]

This is a very odd way to open their game to the public. They knew the demand and how much draw this game had, but it seems they are not prepared.

 

I am not complaining, but if people to pre-ordered last week are getting in before someone in July, it is just bad business.

 

It is always a cluster when MMOs launch, but how many of those people who were sent an invite are currently playing?

 

This thread is starting to each the epicness of the REAL ID cluster bomb.

 

The demand for their game was clear, but waiting in line to gain access to the game like a Blizzard beta key is just strange.

 

^ Complaining. Thanks for lying.

[DaneBramage]

guess i should get on the bandwagon...

 

*cries about how life is unfair and how bioware has gone out of their way to specifically target me and ruin my day*

 

okay... i feel better

 

/sarcasm

[Sergey_Str]

Why I can't launch game/ And asking third times password what been sent by mail in past?

 

 

Where is inviting? when I be able to enter the geame. And here in Russia is Evening!

[Mezgejas]

Access now.

[Scar]

Let me get this straight: select people are considering this a failed launch not because the game is broken, not because the servers are down, not because the forums are down, not because the payment system is broken (all things that have happened in past that have cause people to consider it a failure)...not for any of those reasons...but because people haven't gotten in yet to the early access program that they've known was going to happen since the pre-order started?

 

Hahahahahaha. You people are too much.

[Akir]

The only problem is those of us who are hoping to play with friends, if they gain early access before us then it creates a tiny bit of a problem sometimes.

[freakuancy]

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.

 

 

/wall-o-text

[Draem]

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

 

Okay, so there are two early people that haven't gotten in yet.

[Ravenstormer]

European Servers

No Servers Available

 

Does this mean that the European's who get in now have to waiste their time fooling around on US servers then move to the Euro ones once those are up ?

 

I mean... would be nice to be able to make your early access count on the servers we intend to play on instead of being a "test run" while we wait...

 

The EU servers are the ones with a timezone of "N/A". Alternatively, have a look at the server list in this forum.

[Mirriwah]

Getting really tired of the lines of ******** Bioware has fed us about this game so far. First Grace Period, now this. Outright LYING to customers. If this is indicative of how their support structure is going to work I'm making like a drowning rat and jumping ship ASAP.

 

This is entirely unprofessional and uncalled for in every sense.