On christmas eve, Star Wars: The Old Republic passed 1.000.000 active subscriptions.
This is a HUGE number for a new MMO, and goes to prove the strength of the franchise, and the strength of the game.
This put strain on servers, both for registration and on game servers.
What can I say, queues have gotten smaller, and will probably grow smaller still, as population capacities are raised and new servers hit the line.
Personally, the grumpiness of the first few days has been turned into anticipation and joy. I have joined an active RP kin, and partook in the first RP event yesterday, and guys, it was fantastic. So, Here is a merry christmas and a happy new year to you all, I know I will spend a lot of 2012 in TOR, will you?
1: All servers are all territories, no EU/US or Guild restrictions
2: First emails regarding access will launch out around 13:00 CET
3: All server types go live, PvP, PvE, RP-PvE, RP-PvP
4: Mails will go out in waves, so expect more than one wave of mails per day. (hopefully)
5: Guilds locked have no influence on when you get access. Server your guild is on will be available when you gain access though.
6: Forums will be up for ALL who have entered a Pre-order code at Server launch as well.
Here's to hoping we all gain access on day one, if not, well, we have waited since 2009, what's a few days more?
First boxes of the game are being shipped right now.
I know for a fact that ta least one danish distributor has sent out the boxes today, so some of the lucky gits out there get theirs tomorrow!
(I can myself pick up my CE there...)
So, christmas has come early to a bunch of players, now we all eagerly await early game access.
See you soon on Coruscant jedi scum... *evil grin*
The email sent out by Bioware had an interesting little snippet in it:
Early Game Access will start on the 13th! not the 15th as previously told to the world.
This means you get from the 13th to the 19th for early access, and the characters you create there go into game on the 20th
The first set up is the one handed out by the SW:TOR team in their fansite kit. They do actually look good on this site I think.
If you choose the link Avatar Studio in the menu, you can select an avatar for your profile, when chosen, it automatically adds it, and shows you your profile page.
Isn't that neat?
There are some gifted programmers out there, thank god they work so we can benefit from their works.
Hm.. not sure if I'll be renewing my sub when it runs out in 3 months-ish. The lack of RP on Empire-side is disheartening. I can't play an MMO if there's no RP.
