Ethias Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 it's funny because the developers COULD give rough estimations, but they're too afraid of being wrong... I guess I can understand, if something went wrong they'd have the bothersome task of telling people that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathforged Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I THINK everything depends on the servers. For example, if they had 100,000 invited today and the servers took the pressure w/o problems they will try to add 150,000 tomorrow. If the servers get a bit unstable they will go down again but if it stills goes problem free they will raise the number again. So everything depends on their servers, if they can handle big logins everyone might get several days pre-access but if they can't handle it right of the bat some people might have to be happy with 1 day. How do you and others justify saying this? The was a stress beta where the servers are supposedly capable. And on the 20th more people than the preorders WILL BE LOGGING IN ALL AT ONCE. There is no point to this staggered entrance other than to create demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanSeraph Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 More Reaganomics it seems... Why not calculate that 1/4 of total pre orders were on July 22nd? I can make up numbers too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthAggie Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 More Reaganomics it seems... Why not calculate that 1/4 of total pre orders were on July 22nd? I can make up numbers too. LOL, Fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eversoul Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 that would suck for the 19th people since they are shutting it down that day for maintenance Source? I'm not disagreeing with you. I just think it's lame they say people get up to 5 days of early access yet are taking one away. Also an entire day for maintenance? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqknife Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) Source? I'm not disagreeing with you. I just think it's lame they say people get up to 5 days of early access yet are taking one away. Also an entire day for maintenance? Really? http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20111213 Not sure how long the down time will be but it'll be going down on the 19th. Edited December 13, 2011 by Jaqknife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPidduck Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I hope your mother runs you over with her minivan. My Mother doesn't own a mini-van. She just uses her Fists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayams Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I'm guessing everyone will be in on 15th cuz I know stuff most people are too stupid to grasp. (and that stuff has been mentioned in several threads already, but people ignore it) ... For the LOVE OF GOD! Where is this info, seriously, please link it. I haven't really visited the forums a whole lot up til now when I'd like a decent guess as to when to look to play. So far I've seen a bunch of official vagueness and unofficial, "if you didn't break into the store and ring it up yourself you won't get in!" threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqknife Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 For the LOVE OF GOD! Where is this info, seriously, please link it. I haven't really visited the forums a whole lot up til now when I'd like a decent guess as to when to look to play. So far I've seen a bunch of official vagueness and unofficial, "if you didn't break into the store and ring it up yourself you won't get in!" threads. http://www.swtor.com/community/devtracker.php It's vague but I would not be surprised if everyone was in by the end of Friday, maybe Saturday if something bad happens. After all they have to bring the servers down on the 19th, and I suspect BW will have everyone pretty much invited before then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogman Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 What is funny is, a guy, who has no way to know this information, can give us an estimate that is something like we want, yet, Bioware, who has a schedule like this laid out already, can't post it for us to see. LOL! Go ahead and say I have entitlement issues, but, as would alot of people, I would still like to know the plan. Since it is set in stone, and won't change, at the very least, Bioware could say where the last wave ended. (ie: "The last Wave 5 invite was for a pre oreder on 07/23/2011") That lets us know that tomorrow(the next wave) it starts on 7/23 or 7/24. LOL! Communication!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NexAngel Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 45%+ of the preorders occurred after Oct 11 (based off of vgchartz). Therefore your numbers are way too conservative. 14.5% will get in each day. Orders before Oct 11th will get in on the 16th at the latest. You are assuming that it will be an even distribution of people on each day. In most of the IT deployments I have done that are over 10-15K users, we ramped up deployment. So it might be 5% the first day, 10% second day, 20% third day and each day after that and a light day on the last day... We have no idea what their deployment numbers are going to be, so all we can do is sit and wait for our emails. I have two CE preorders in August (19th and 29th) and a digital version in October... so I will get to see several different deployment days. Myself and three of my kids all play, (one isn't pre-ordering), so it will be fun to watch. Yoda: "Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcalyn Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 You are assuming that it will be an even distribution of people on each day. In most of the IT deployments I have done that are over 10-15K users, we ramped up deployment. So it might be 5% the first day, 10% second day, 20% third day and each day after that and a light day on the last day... We have no idea what their deployment numbers are going to be, so all we can do is sit and wait for our emails. I have two CE preorders in August (19th and 29th) and a digital version in October... so I will get to see several different deployment days. Myself and three of my kids all play, (one isn't pre-ordering), so it will be fun to watch. Yoda: "Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless." Brilliant! And the Yoda saying fits us late pre-orders perfectly!!!!! Too funny! Impatience leads to anger. Anger leads to nerdrage. Nerdrage leads to the darkside of the force! I wanted to be a Jedi but early game access is forcing me to roll a Sith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkdrgn Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 oct 2nd is in as of today, so your figures are allll wrong now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bocefas Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I've been posting on the forums that the waves are preplanned. As the days play out we see I told you so! Mark this post! December pre-order wave will go out Monday! They will take the weekend off! No new bonus wave. I told you so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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