Early Access Date anounced

http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20111104-0

This link was just posted on the SWTOR Facebook page

Nice! Up to 5 days depending on when you entered your pre-order code.

I wonder how guild creation is going to be effected? I entered my pre-order code on July 21st which was the first day you could purchase the game...I think.

I pre-ordered on the second day. So i should be able to play the entire weekend! Note to self: do not wait until the last weekend to buy christmas presents this year.

got mine at 5am :)

That whole "up to 5 days" thing bothers me. My friend preordered recently and he and I want to level up together. I preordered in september or october, so I may be in "up to 5 days" ahead of him, meaning (at the rate I level up currently) that I will have to wait "up to 5 days" to start playing unless I want to out level him.

Quote by Angelsilhouette

That whole "up to 5 days" thing bothers me. My friend preordered recently and he and I want to level up together. I preordered in september or october, so I may be in "up to 5 days" ahead of him, meaning (at the rate I level up currently) that I will have to wait "up to 5 days" to start playing unless I want to out level him.

ALTS!!! :D

Quote by Xcentric

Quote by Angelsilhouette

That whole "up to 5 days" thing bothers me. My friend preordered recently and he and I want to level up together. I preordered in september or october, so I may be in "up to 5 days" ahead of him, meaning (at the rate I level up currently) that I will have to wait "up to 5 days" to start playing unless I want to out level him.

ALTS!!! :D

Exactly. Pick a class to play with your friend and then play something else while waiting for him to be able to join.

Ahh, exciting! The early access window falls during my (weird) days off at work. Now I just have to hope we end up on the same server as my brother's and all is well.

It's going to be hard to not call in sick to work on release day.

Quote by jagerbolt

It's going to be hard to not call in sick to work on release day.

I've already warned my boss that I'm not going to be feeling good for about a 2 or so days. And those days will just happen to be around early release. :) She just laughs at me and says have fun and send screen shots of the game. I have a great boss!!!

I'm excited I should get the full five days, of course being in the Beta does give me some idea of what I'm going to be doing ;)

Personally i intend to my first period of early access to get perfectly situated in my new character, can anyone say how the Character creator stacks up to other games?

Quote by Seannewboy

can anyone say how the Character creator stacks up to other games?

Pretty poorly. 4 body shapes from which to choose; the number / variety of faces depends on the race you choose.

That said, I can still create a character with which I am very happy.

Not being in the beta, therefore not bound by the NDA, I have seen the character creator, and have to admit that I am profoundly disappointed with it.

This is just one of a few areas that SW:TOR feels like a step backward from some of the things you expect in modern MMOs. Even the naming restrictions are pretty archaic. That's not to say I couldn't create a half-decent character, but the creator is definitely closer to WoW than STO and certainly nowhere near CoX or CO.

That's not to say it's a bad game, just... disappointing in a few "less important" areas... but areas that will be niggling annoyances to people who love to craft their character (and names) with great care. I guess the one good side is that each class has a distinct voice for each gender (e.g. the Inquisitor has a different voice than the Warrior).

There are a few areas like this that provide enough (at least in my personal opinion) archaic and outdated "weaknesses" that they seemed to have torn from previous MMOs "just because" SW:TOR is an MMO. I think some of the MMOs coming out shortly after SW:TOR that are really working to truly revolutionize the genre are going to be able to capitalize on these to some extent.

Quote by Adawehi

Just a note... the article says "Early Game Access will be granted according to when your Pre-Order Code is redeemed..." That's different from 'when you pre-ordered.' So if you've pre-ordered but haven't registered your code on the site, you better do that immediately.

And Angelsilhouette, if neither you or your friend have registered your code, you might want to do that at the same time, and that could fix your problem. But I agree with the other guys: ALTS!!!!

I redeemed ages ago, but he preordered with gamestop and they didn't give him a code.

Oh no about the charactor creation. I'm one of those that spends a lot of time fiddling with the features of each toon. I disliked WoW's creation since it was very limited. And the nameing thing you mentioned scares me as again I spend hours picking names, I already hav a list of 15 names I like and will be ordering them for Sith and Republic toons. Ugh!!!!!!

Oh well. ./sighs

And yes...Alts! ;)

Quote by jagerbolt

It's going to be hard to not call in sick to work on release day.

...this... :(