Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Most CE people (I maintain wisely) did not order their CE from Gamestop or another physical store due to that and other companies' tendency to screw crap up royally. The majority of us ordered off of Amazon.com, which offered release-day delivery for normal copies of the game, but not the CE. We thought that would be fine and that there would be a grace period to cover that void but, sadly, EA has decided to instead throw us the virtual equivalent of the middle finger.

There's going to be a good stretch in there where most of the people who dropped the biggest bucks on this game vanish off the servers for a span of 1-10 days. The Aussies, by all accounts, have been royally screwed by this move in particular.

best of luck on launch. May you all have a stable launch day/server.

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Well depending on where your located and who you pre ordered from. Alot of the CE pre Ordered will see anywhere from 1 to 7 days gap between the end of EGA and when they finally get there CE hard copy in hand. So that they can enter there activation code.

I can't decide on class, so i will just write them all down on old bus tickets and pull one out of a hat.

Originally posted by Humphrie

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Most CE people (I maintain wisely) did not order their CE from Gamestop or another physical store due to that and other companies' tendency to screw crap up royally. The majority of us ordered off of Amazon.com, which offered release-day delivery for normal copies of the game, but not the CE. We thought that would be fine and that there would be a grace period to cover that void but, sadly, EA has decided to instead throw us the virtual equivalent of the middle finger.

 

There's going to be a good stretch in there where most of the people who dropped the biggest bucks on this game vanish off the servers for a span of 1-10 days. The Aussies, by all accounts, have been royally screwed by this move in particular.

 I'll be at Gamestop on the 20th to pick up my CE. I'll never understand why people order stuff through the mail anyways. You guys should of learned that with the first expansion of WoW.

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Has nothing to do with CE's.   Boxed copies order from EA won't start to be shipped until the 16th which is a friday... come tuesday morning if you don't have your "code" on your account you get cut off because there is no grace period.

I've not really heard much about how soon retailers are supposed to ship boxes in North America.   The only official statement I saw from a BioWare poster was that they would get the boxes out but they were not guaranteeing they would be to *you* on the 20th.

Now in Europe since they moved the date of launch up to the 15th oddly they have boxes arriving already.

Point is for order done directly why are they charging credit cards on the 13th and not shipping until the 16th?   That was information directly from one of their stickies.   Why would you charge before you ship?   Why would you go with no grace period and then not ship boxes until the friday before a tuesday launch?   This time of year there can be problems with shipping due to volume... so one might have thought it to be rather intellegent to ship out a bit earlier.

In fact it might even have been smart not to say you were going to bill people before you ship.   Buy from Amazon or any retailer like that and they will tell you .. you are not billed until your product is shipped.. not 3 days before its shipped.

Its just not well thought out in my opinion.   I don't care if I have a few days I can't play.   It just comes across as very unprofessional in my opinion.   Like someone had no concept about shipping... lots of things.   Nobody at EA ever shipped a pre-order before?

*edit*  People who ordered for in store pickup (I don't live anywhere near a physical store) are going to be in better shape.   Why?  because unlike us... stores get saturday delivery.   That used to kill my sales when I was a mail order phone guy... people would see the game saturday and call monday to cancel the pre-orders that we were not going to ship until monday.

I am so excited- I have wrote down all the names that people have posted in their swtor sig just to see how many of them I can make before they log in!!

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Humphrie

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Most CE people (I maintain wisely) did not order their CE from Gamestop or another physical store due to that and other companies' tendency to screw crap up royally. The majority of us ordered off of Amazon.com, which offered release-day delivery for normal copies of the game, but not the CE. We thought that would be fine and that there would be a grace period to cover that void but, sadly, EA has decided to instead throw us the virtual equivalent of the middle finger.

 

There's going to be a good stretch in there where most of the people who dropped the biggest bucks on this game vanish off the servers for a span of 1-10 days. The Aussies, by all accounts, have been royally screwed by this move in particular.

 I'll be at Gamestop on the 20th to pick up my CE. I'll never understand why people order stuff through the mail anyways. You guys should of learned that with the first expansion of WoW.

 

What I 'learned' was a lesson repeated in TOR -- when I went to go preorder a physical copy from Gamestop on July 21, I was told that 'we sold out of those 2 weeks ago.'

???

I promptly turned on a heel and walked out of the store, never to return. If they can't train their employees correctly regarding a $150 dollar purchase on the biggest MMO of the year that I am trying to make the day preordering began, they don't get my business. And I am hardly alone in stories like these -- the CS at Gamestop teeters dangerously between incompetence and 'we're getting reports of a violent shooting spree at a local gaming retailer -- more at 11.'

 Good luck to you all.

 I'm not going to play it but I hope everything launches smoothly for those who are.

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Humphrie

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Most CE people (I maintain wisely) did not order their CE from Gamestop or another physical store due to that and other companies' tendency to screw crap up royally. The majority of us ordered off of Amazon.com, which offered release-day delivery for normal copies of the game, but not the CE. We thought that would be fine and that there would be a grace period to cover that void but, sadly, EA has decided to instead throw us the virtual equivalent of the middle finger.

 

There's going to be a good stretch in there where most of the people who dropped the biggest bucks on this game vanish off the servers for a span of 1-10 days. The Aussies, by all accounts, have been royally screwed by this move in particular.

 I'll be at Gamestop on the 20th to pick up my CE. I'll never understand why people order stuff through the mail anyways. You guys should of learned that with the first expansion of WoW.

 

What does learning have to do with it? Bioware stated in very clear terms that they would offer a grace period. Tons of players purchased their CE not worrying about shipment times. Bioware then reneged leaving said 'tons' of players up shyte creek. Cancelling a sold out CE really isn't a viable option for many.

Bioware brought this upon us and chose to answer our cries for help with "we'll talk to the distributors and hopefully they can fix our @#%@up".

Will life go on? Yes

Will a crap ton of players be pissed come Dec. 20? Yes

Will a whole bunch of that crap ton not even see this coming Dec. 20 and raise #%#@ storm part 2 on that day? Yes.

I am so fucking ready *takes off*

Originally posted by Humphrie

Originally posted by Blazer6992

Originally posted by Tamanous

 how Bioware screwed us CE owners over, 

 How is that?

 

Most CE people (I maintain wisely) did not order their CE from Gamestop or another physical store due to that and other companies' tendency to screw crap up royally. The majority of us ordered off of Amazon.com, which offered release-day delivery for normal copies of the game, but not the CE. We thought that would be fine and that there would be a grace period to cover that void but, sadly, EA has decided to instead throw us the virtual equivalent of the middle finger.

 

There's going to be a good stretch in there where most of the people who dropped the biggest bucks on this game vanish off the servers for a span of 1-10 days. The Aussies, by all accounts, have been royally screwed by this move in particular.

I have a CE from Amazon and I have Release Day Delivery.  From what I understand, not everyone was offered it.  Maybe Amazon realized just how big the CE was and backed off, getting rid of that option?

Originally posted by EndDream

My preorder was registered pn july 31st. 10 days after preorders started. I freaking hope I get in tomorrow. IM DIEINGGGG... GAHHHHHH SOOO EXCITEDDDDDD

iI dunno, how many do you think they will allow on day 1? The July 30th sales figure showed roughly 120,000 preorders.

http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders/40755/USA/

It showed a 99,000 increase in the week of 7/23-7/30.

So that would mean around 20,000 preordered in the first 2 days.

Originally posted by Tamanous

Will a whole bunch of that crap ton not even see this coming Dec. 20 and raise #%#@ storm part 2 on that day? Yes.

Oh, god, this a thousand times over. Given their website's flimsy reputation when a lot of people are on it, I expect the forums to be down pretty much all day on the 20th.

Originally posted by Humphrie

What I 'learned' was a lesson repeated in TOR -- when I went to go preorder a physical copy from Gamestop on July 21, I was told that 'we sold out of those 2 weeks ago.'

 

???

 

I promptly turned on a heel and walked out of the store, never to return. If they can't train their employees correctly regarding a $150 dollar purchase on the biggest MMO of the year that I am trying to make the day preordering began, they don't get my business. And I am hardly alone in stories like these -- the CS at Gamestop teeters dangerously between incompetence and 'we're getting reports of a violent shooting spree at a local gaming retailer -- more at 11.'

 Most Gamestop employees don't know exactly what's going on, like how they didn't know that they were supossed to give out a game code on 7-21-11 when someone pre-ordered SWTOR. I always make sure I know my self what is going on and then inform the idiot pimple faced kids at the Gamestop. Then once they check it all out and realize I am right, then that store is good to go. But I usually only pre-order games from there when I know that particular employee and know that they are informed. Usually it is the manager, if he isn't there then I come back later.

Nah they won't be able to post without entering their code first.

Originally posted by Blazer6992

 

 I'll be at Gamestop on the 20th to pick up my CE. I'll never understand why people order stuff through the mail anyways. You guys should of learned that with the first expansion of WoW.

 

Some of us don't have much of a choice. I live way back in the hills of Kentucky where you won't find a gamestop, bestbuy or nothing else for that matter.

I wish, not getting in till thursday.

DDE FTW! 

You can have your action figures and your little shop with your shiny buttons and fancy hats.  Plus that rat droid is gonna get annoying you just watch...

It seems like alot of you guys have bad people that work at your gamestops. The 3 that are around me all with in 1.5 miles have people that know there games and what is coming out. Hell it is hard to get a job at the gamestops around here as you have to know everything about gaming. you gotta know Console and PC gaming to get a job at the gamestops around here. Plus here there is always a manger working.