The Wait is Over… For Some… December 13, 2011
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Star Wars: The Old Republic.Tags: Early Accesss
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A bunch of very happy people got this message in their email. They can start playing Star Wars: The Old Republic today. A list of servers await them, or one server if their guild has been assigned.
Early Access Invite
I hope nobody missed out because they sent one to me. Sorry!
And, on a tangential note, I hope EA and BioWare have a lot of authenticators lined up to sell and can get them in the EA store soon. Judging from my Google traffic, a lot of people want one. SWTOR authenticator, and variations thereof, lead my search engine traffic by a wide margin.
Would have hoped I’d get one… only entered my code… 7 months ago!
Maybe the EU is not getting that much of a headstart
Well done!
Have fun in there and please don’t dawdle in the newbie area.
I havent gotten the invite today, but my friends did, which is kind of annoying since we plan on playing together. I was really looking forward to the game until I played the beta. Now I am still looking forward to playing, but not as much as I once was.
I suppose I could actually download the client, log in, and create a character to secure my name. Not that I have a Star Wars name I am sold on.
My pre-order was cancelled (by me) but I had already entered the code, so I get early access but can’t/won’t play once the game goes live… at least not until we’re done with Rift I would guess.
No wonder they declined to allow a grace period, what with people like me about.
I still haven’t received an email invite, but I logged in about 5 hours ago and reserved some names. They’re just names I re-used from other games, not necessarily “Star Wars” names, but if I want them, I’ve got them.
In yet another BW fail, it was announced that you didn’t have to wait for the email, you could log in immediately without it. I say fail because this was “announced” on Stephen Reid’s personal twitter account. Not the first time they’ve pulled something like that either.
@HZ – Heh, yeah, I saw somebody mention that they had been able to log in before they had received an email. Too much fun on the big first day. I see they already have more than 100 servers listed for just North America. I wonder where that number will peak.