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Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 15!
« on: November 04, 2011, 04:56:55 pm »
The new pre-order page has a pretty juicy bit of information. According to the site, your early access "may be up to 5 days before launch" depending on when you pre-ordered it. For a majority of us, that means our launch will be December 15! Let the planning begin!

By the way, that new page also has a better layout of the benefits of each pre-order package, so it's worth taking a look!

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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 15!
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2011, 05:06:14 pm »
Why why whyyyy! Why can't it be the 16th?! I have my Accounting final exam at 8pm on Thursday and Friday morning at 7:45am I have another exam! Depending on the time they let people in, I'll be 12-36 hours behind people.

I wonder if the times that they allow people in will be at midnight on their respective day or at 5pm FA like they have for the Beta runs. I hope it's the 5pm, because then I'll only be a little behind those who start out right away.


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Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 15!
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2011, 05:52:05 pm »
I wouldn't be too worried, I hope to be playing a long time.


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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 15!
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2011, 05:56:09 pm »
Bah of course it is a Thursday. That way I can get 2 days of play to become completely addicted and forsake sleep for a couple extra hours of play time right before my work seek (Sat/Sun/Mon)! Those bastards.
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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 15!
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2011, 03:49:42 am »
Quote from: "Anamodiel"
Why why whyyyy! Why can't it be the 16th?! I have my Accounting final exam at 8pm on Thursday and Friday morning at 7:45am I have another exam! Depending on the time they let people in, I'll be 12-36 hours behind people.



Heh, quit yo whinin'! I won't be able to get in until after the 22nd because of my exams and research paper hand in.

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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2011, 09:02:17 pm »
All of this recent SWTOR talk is bumming me out. I'm working a seasonal job this year that requires me to put in a lot of overtime. I will barely have time to get a full night's sleep, even less to play the game with y'all. But after Christmas, I'll probably be playing all day every day.

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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2011, 07:36:57 am »
One analysis of when you might get early access:


These data were gathered from: www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php
Each tick on the bottom-x axis is 1 week.
From the graph this gives the following approximate results:
15 Dec: Preordered by 4-5 Aug
16 Dec: Preordered by 31 Aug - 1 Sept
17 Dec: Preordered by 9-10 Oct
18 Dec: Preordered by 10-11 Nov
19 Dec: Preordered by 19 Dec

Assuming Pre-orders maintain the linear growth seen (excluding initial surge), there will be approximately 1 million preorders by pre-launch.
"IF" Bioware breaks this into 5 even groups, the above image indicates approximate pre-order date cutoffs for each group.

It is also possible they will choose do do a larger or smaller initial group.
If there is a late surge or drop-off in number of pre-orders the dates could shift one-way or the other.

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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2011, 11:11:14 am »
Ive been wondering how all these things are gonna work for the european people? I believe I read that the game isnt supposed to be released until dec 22nd (I assume that I wont be able to play even if Im playing on a US server - region restriction and whatnot) will that mean that prerelease for us would be the 17th or would we be able to get in already the 15th?

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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2011, 11:42:39 am »
the changed the eu release date to the same as the us



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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2011, 01:04:37 pm »
Can't wait for the early entry Dec 15th can't come soon enough.

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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2011, 01:06:36 pm »
I'm in beta and can't wait



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Re: Update the Countdown! Early Access Starts Dec. 1
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2011, 01:09:20 pm »
A little over 5 weeks away then!! W00T!!!

 

 

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