Originally posted by evemaster00

I'm also reading that some people who preordered as late as september and even december are in game right now. Explain that one.

A disproportionat number of trolls that hang out in forums when they can not get in?

Originally posted by Darth_Osor

Originally posted by gavotte1

This is silly. Both my brother and husband both got in the first wave and I didn't. We all registered first day.

 

Silly.

 

Silly.

 

Silly.

Did you register at the same time?  I registered first day about 5pm EST, and I'm not in yet, either.

My husband and I registered at the same time...together. My brother registered about 5ish or so hours after us.

I wasn't a long-time beta tester, but I did get invited to 2 weekend betas (in addition to the "everybody pre-ordered" beta).

Don't mind me though, I'm just greatly jealous that my husband is sitting next to me playing while I get to vent in a forum :p

I really don't understand why they couldn't have sent the access emails in advance....

Actually I do know why.. they wanted everyone to be hammering their site and talking about SWTOR so they can then do a press release a week later saying how many people hit their site, how it broke from the load and how they trended the world over on twitter.

Even though its annoying a lot of their customers. PR machines suck.

Originally posted by MMOtoGO

Originally posted by gavotte1

This is silly. Both my brother and husband both got in the first wave and I didn't. We all registered first day.

 

Silly.

 

Silly.

 

Silly.

You're not the first person I've heard this happened to.  This makes no sense at all.  Did they pull the names out of a hat or what?

Clear case of Bro's before Ho's...

Originally posted by eric1000

Originally posted by evemaster00

So far all this sending the invites out in waves thing has accomplished is giving a headstart to the lucky few. The majority of servers are still low pop, a few are medium. If it stays like this for a few hours then this is going to be major fail.

 

What's fail about it?   Better them do it this way than let everyone swamp the server at once and probably bring it screaching to a halt.

I don't know about you but part of the fun of a launch of a new MMO is the mad rush you get when you tons of players in the newbie zones.   It's part of the excitement and rush people get.  I am seeing live streamers playing and the zones are dead.  It's almost like playing a single player game, which defeats the purpose of an MMO.   No excitement whatsoever...

This is starting be a bore fest honestly.  All the  triple A MMOs I played at launch had this great excitement as people compete at the same time and move on to the next time. 

Well, on our server, there are currently 56 people (Empire) playing.

Yeah.. 56. Talk about not stressing the servers.

Originally posted by eric1000

Originally posted by evemaster00

So far all this sending the invites out in waves thing has accomplished is giving a headstart to the lucky few. The majority of servers are still low pop, a few are medium. If it stays like this for a few hours then this is going to be major fail.

 

What's fail about it?   Better them do it this way than let everyone swamp the server at once and probably bring it screaching to a halt.

What's fail? The fact that Bioware just can't communicate, I suppose. It'd be nice if that did any of the following:

e-mail us ahead of time for our early access time

post when the next wave will be accepted

have a consistant working website with decent information...

Originally posted by BarryManilow

Originally posted by eric1000

Originally posted by evemaster00

So far all this sending the invites out in waves thing has accomplished is giving a headstart to the lucky few. The majority of servers are still low pop, a few are medium. If it stays like this for a few hours then this is going to be major fail.

 

What's fail about it?   Better them do it this way than let everyone swamp the server at once and probably bring it screaching to a halt.

I don't know about you but part of the fun of a launch of a new MMO is the mad rush you get when you tons of players in the newbie zones.   It's part of the excitement and rush people get.  I am seeing live streamers playing and the zones are dead.  It's almost like playing a single player game, which defeats the purpose of an MMO.   No excitement whatsoever...

This is starting be a bore fest honestly.  All the  triple A MMOs I played at launch had this great excitement as people compete at the same time and move on to the next time. 

 So wait untill this evening. This is nothing compared to what will happen then.

Originally posted by evemaster00

So far all this sending the invites out in waves thing has accomplished is giving a headstart to the lucky few. The majority of servers are still low pop, a few are medium. If it stays like this for a few hours then this is going to be major fail.

It won't be a major fail.  They learned from Blizzards mistake when they released WOW.  They are hoping players will move through the zones and move to the higher level areas.  They are playing it safe.

I only preordered last night and so I won't get in any time soon.  But I'm hoping to get enough time to not have to deal with tons of players in the lower areas.

They will still likely run into problems on release day, but they are certainly minimizing those with the staggered release.

They also just posted on twitter that there will be mulitple email waves thru the day.

From SR:

So @rockjaw what's up with these people claiming the redeemed early access codes in October or later and they're in before July peeps?

Well, according to the database pull, they're mistaken.

So @rockjaw what's up with these people claiming the redeemed early access codes in October or later and they're in before July peeps?

@coreydowning Well, according to the database pull, they're mistaken.

about the trolls lol

I am confused.....can someone tell me where the fail is here? Or am i getting too old to undersatnd sarcasm?

Before 7AM (server time), on the first day of the week.

Let's just say any conclusions you might try to draw this early are...premature.

Originally posted by DeadlyByDez

I am confused.....can someone tell me where the fail is here? Or am i getting too old to undersatnd sarcasm?

 The fail is not letting everyone in at one time and the servers dying and people not being able to play all day. Or they could do what they are doing now. I got my e-mail but stuck at work for 2 more hours :(

Originally posted by Boompje

From SR:

So @rockjaw what's up with these people claiming the redeemed early access codes in October or later and they're in before July peeps?

 

Well, according to the database pull, they're mistaken.

Thank-you, i was just going to post this. Deserves quoting so everyone sees it.

the fact that all preorders didn't get access at the same time, coupled with apparently no server opening staggering, is a massive fail by itself.

I don't know about you but I was already royally pissed at the stress-test beta on the starting planet when I each time had to search the quest NPCs in between the 40+ people standing around him/her.

The waves do make sense for several reasons and those that once again are complaining seriously should consider if gaming might not maybe be a tiny bit too important for them in their lives.

Nothing to say about this except OP, You a 1st class idiot.

I'm not the only person who entered their code on the first day (July 21, 2011) who wasn't in the first wave. So, if they can't even handle all the first day pre-orders with out issues, then I would classify that as a rocky start.