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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
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NeededSleep
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Jarmel said:
that makes more sense
Morn said:
There might be more to it, it could be that the first 50k get access to a semi open beta and the other 500k get access to a running start and the rest of the orders go into effect on the real day of release. Would make sense too as it gives EA better threshold of how they need to tune the servers and how many to implement by launch day, as well as try to solve any server issues that are 'likely' to arise. At least that's the only way I can make heads or tales of it...
Yeah there areMorn said:
http://store.origin.com/DRHM/store?...S&ThemeID=718200&Env=BASE&productID=231088000
HarryDemeanor
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I always pickup my Collector's Edition copies at my local Fry's anyway.
Morn said:
You are right that there will be a drop off as there always is.
But from your statement I guess you don't play much MMOs. The reason to play a MMO is the endgame content where all the really cool shit is. So it all boils down to endgame content i.e. Instances, Raid, PVP and Gear progression.
MaddenNFL64
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I think if the leveling process is as non grindy as I think it will be, more people will stick around for the endgame stuff than usual.
HotHamWater
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MaddenNFL64 said:
It's pretty grindy in it's current state.
MaddenNFL64
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HotHamWater said:
I mean in the "i'm gonna head to blahblah to level up for a few hours" smacking on randoms shit grind. I think the story context & not just text popups, the herding "grind" in recent mmos will be even less tiresome.
MaddenNFL64
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Giolon said:
Well, it's more of the fact that even with the massive numbers of WoW, i'd say 80-90% never do any raiding.
Most people will play Tor for it's leveling & stop, i'm just hoping that there will be a good amount who will stick around.
MaddenNFL64
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Orgun said:
This is a bug. But a cool bug.
Yaska
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It's not so bad as long as you don't have to grind for months for just one level. (been there, done that.) Also I wish they would announce their region-plans already. Would be nice to have Guild Wars style where you can play on both US and EU with one purchase, instead of ordering from another side of the world to get the right key.
Dinosaur Tamer
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That could just be the regular weekly maintenance now and they most likely set everything up for the preorder-program yesterday.
So, Origin preorders = beta? I'm not going to take that Kotaku report word for word, but the overall message is reasonable: Origin preorders go live soon with some limitations based on a first come basis.
Just to nitpick, today the old build comes down. Not sure when the new build goes up, unless I missed something.antonz said:
Dinosaur Tamer
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Sigfodr said:
Yeah, you are right about that. We only know they are going down today.
I don't really want to get the game on origin. I already use two download platforms. Not really eager to add a third one to the list. Also, I really don't want to have another program running in the background whenever I play SWTOR.
If the rumors are true and origin gets an exclusive digital CE with 6 days head start (instead of 3) and beta access for those quick enough, I am not sure I can resist the temptation though.
SensualSeduction
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I signed up a couple of months ago and did the beta hardware test thingy,when should i expect a beta invite from BIOWARE ?
Dinosaur Tamer
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Billychu said:
Source? I was under the impression EA tries to set up Origin like Steam and assumed it would be required to launch/play the game if you buy the digital edition. Would be positively surprised if they already denied that.
A dev said it weeks ago on the forums. I don't have time to find it so hopefully someone else can.Dinosaur Tamer said:Source? I was under the impression EA tries to set up Origin like Steam and assumed it would be required to launch/play the game if you buy the digital edition. Would be positively surprised if they already denied that.
Jbird34
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Dinosaur Tamer said:Source? I was under the impression EA tries to set up Origin like Steam and assumed it would be required to launch/play the game if you buy the digital edition. Would be positively surprised if they already denied that.
When EA did their buy DA2 get ME2 for free promo I downloaded ME2 and have never had to run origin to launch it.
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Here is the quote from Stephen Reid:
However, you wont need to launch the Origin application to run The Old Republic, nor will you patch the game via Origin. Once the game is on your hard disk, youll be connecting to our servers to patch and launch the game, and Origin does not have to be running to do that.
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