*****Official Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread*****

[CaptainRAVE]

These prices are mad

 

[CaptainRAVE]

lol

Tried to preorder the regular edition on Origin.

Thank you for submitting your request for a Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ pre-order. Your request will be processed in the order it was received, while quantities last. An e-mail will be sent within 48 hours to let you know if your request was successful. If your request was successful your credit card will be charged for the pre-order. Your card will be charged for the price of the edition you ordered when the product is released.

Based on our estimates you ARE likely to receive the pre-order copy of Star Wars: The Old Republic you requested.

Hope I get it

Not interested in any other edition for an MMO - the monthly subs are expensive enough as it is and vanity items become useless very quickly.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

This was one of the questions on the beta survey - none of us actually believed there would be limited stock!!!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Just waiting for the confirmation on the order now so I can put the code into my account. Annoying thing is, if this comes out anytime in September I won't be able to play it until the very end of that month

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Maybe the publisher is only letting them out in batches.

This seems likely, they can always add more based on demand and server space...

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Just got an email saying there was a payment error

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Just ordered the collectors edition.... £129.99

Just ordered the collectors edition from GAME at £129.99
Really cant wait, its been nearly 5 years waiting for me.

You are all crazy paying that - isn't that nearly the cost of at least 6 months sub or even a lifetime sub for most MMOs?

CaptainRAVE couldn't resist the game, even after all he said about how it isn't ready he is one of the first to pre-order

Yeah, I was bored

 

[CaptainRAVE]

It's a sign.

Just re-entered my details and got my key.

At the very least, with "limited numbers" I hope the release is smooth! Crazy that we still don't have a date though.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I just hope the retail download isn't as big as the 38gb beta download. Not capped at the moment, but may be by release

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Wait, the preorder code doesn't actually activate on Origin? Guess we get a retail code later? I forget how the whole MMO preorder works.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Hehe I am sticking to my guns and waiting for 3 months after release before I decide if I am buying it or not. Want to see whether people are still enjoying it once the hype has run out. I'd be bloody furious if I stumped up £130 and then decided after a week that I dont like it, hell I'd even be somewhat annoyed if I stumped up £39.99 and then decided after a week I dont like it. I'll play it safe and wait and see whats what after 3 months.

Don't blame you tbh - watch this space. I haven't got many other games to play or wait for, so figure I will take the risk.

If you add all the extra costs it works out about £10 quid cheaper, not a masssive saving!

I think the point is, even with exchange rates, we are getting taken for a ride.

The only good thing about the CE edition is the ingame collectors store - however, still not worth the price.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I believe CaptainRAVE said that Beta(Or atleast this phase of beta) has finished now, might be mistaken though.

The beta/playtest that we were a part of has finished.

I suspect there will be a larger open beta in due course - at least based on the launch of almost every other MMO.

Do they really need to topple WoW though? I'm not sure we'll ever see a western MMO achieve WoW style numbers again, I truly believe its an anomaly in the genre rather than something likely to be repeated. I'm not sure they particularly need 10 million subscribers, nor am I sure we'll ever see another western MMO achieve that anyway.

It was quoted a while back that they will need 1 million subscribers to break even.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

They have enough stock, they realised their prices are quite high compared to what we expect from MMO's and are trying to drive demand and create a frenzy to get the game sold by pretending that there is limited stock. I mean running out of digital stock? Pull the other one.

This is EA, they are a giant company worth Billions, if they were even close to running out of stock they would have half of Asia working to produce more. I mean look at Play.com and Amazon, both said they were sold out, then mysteriously had more stock within an hour or so(And Amazon increased their prices by a fiver during this)

I don't for a second believe they will "run out of stock" - we had a survey near the end of the beta that asked us questions pertaining to whether we would be more likely to buy it if stock was limited etc. etc. - none of us actually believed it would be.

I can completely understand this. Control the numbers coming in and develop your servers accordingly - I have been a part of far too many MMOs where during the headstart the servers are down most of the time and we are all queuing to get in!

Of course, if the release is shaky, then they will have angered people even more...

Edit: btw, for those limited by ISPs, expect the download to be near 40GB!!!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

My internet download speed is about 1gb an hour, so to download this it will be almost 2 consecutive days... I hope they do an Open Beta now just so I can use that time to download the client in time for Headstart...

Same - I am uncapped until mid-August. After that I will probably be with Virgin or a similar ISP

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Its an amazing amount of revenue when you think about it, if 100,000 CEs are bought , thats £13 million straight off the bat.

Haven't they already spent over 100 million anyway? Will take them a while just to start making a profit.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Luckily, I have already had a months play, so not too bothered about the headstart. Figured I would get in early anyway though just to get my copy - I know I would eventually end up getting it anyway.

The prices are crazy though and the marketing hasn't been a great way to sell the game to the community.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

are the ea servers still down?

Which servers?

Wish I had ordered this from Amazon. Great to have a key in my account now, but would rather have it on disk to install. Hope we can preload well before release.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Keep in mind that when preordering the game, they are saying that codes entered into the early access are dealt with on a first come, first served basis. Don't order the CE from GAME online, go to the store and you will get the code immediatly (I think a few have already mentioned this, but just bumping it).

I went for the standard edition, have paid for vanity rubbish before and for an MMO where you will be paying monthly aswell, it just isn't worth it.

Hope you all enjoy your CE editions though

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Thats why this whole idea that theres a credit crunch on is a myth, if there was a credit crunch on people wouldnt spent £130 on getting lathered

 

[CaptainRAVE]

No offence to anyone here who have made similar comments, but the need to defend a game that a lot of people haven't even played yet drives me insane. Take this after the videos:

Curious what was the graphic setting for the person playing the the PvP video...Im going to assume Medium to low settings since you do get smooth texturing on the players just 20 meters away

Followed by a reply I have seen many times -

on high

Assume medium to low? Has this person even played the game?

Hmm, rant over, I should be used to it with MMOs by now.