Comments on: [SWTOR] Are we there yet?

By: Capella

Capella — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:03:35 +0000

Please post spoiler-tagged updates about how your Warrior is doing, I’m curious to see how other people are playing theirs!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:32:23 +0000

On the upside, I preordered just a couple of weeks ago and got in on wednesday.

On the downside, I’m already regretting I bought the game at all. I don’t see myself continuing to play even for the free month. It just isn’t keeping my interest.

Oh well. Since this seems to have killed Rift (a game that depends on there being a critical mass for world events), I’ll probably be drifting back to WoW at some point.

By: kiantremayne

kiantremayne — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:13:06 +0000

I pre-ordered through Origin – no problems for me, at least. Got my code as soon as I pre-ordered and entered it. I’m really not seeing any great issue, apart from the fact that Bioware didn’t let everyone in at once and some very vocal people don’t like having to wait in line. And just be clear – I’m fully behind Bioware in how they’ve handled this because from a capacity management perspective letting this many people in wolud have been a nightmare. No other game has had anything remotely like SWTOR’s numbers to cope with at launch (not even WoW, and WoW had a lot of load problems at launch).

By: Leah

Leah — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:08:15 +0000

personally, I pre-ordered because I wanted to make sure that my copy arrives on launch day without me having to go to the physical store. on amazon, as I usually do. I was charged identical price to what i would have payed had I gone into a physical shop, or ordered after launch. I did however get faster shipping at lower price then normal, becasue amazon charges less for release day delivery vs their prime shipping. no idea why. I wasn’t charged for my copy a single penny, until it was actually shipped. and considering that pretty much every single AAA title in the last couple of years (not counting expansions) cost those same 60 bucks?

I didn’t get in on a first day. I was actually surprised when I got my access on Thursday rather then Friday. and I think complaining is utterly ridiculous.

unless they were complaining about horrific issues with origin codes and pre-orders. several people I know were having issues with registering their codes. EA really need to stabilize that damn thing before making it their exclusive method of digital distribution

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:30:28 +0000

I didn’t say they were horrible, evil and bad. I do think that pre-order deals/ offers/ discounts are getting increasingly confusing though.

SWTOR is also an example of a PC game that’s costing more than the usual AAA PC game price (the usual sort of price for an amazon AAA PC game preorder has been around £25 for awhile now, games like SWTOR and Diablo 3 have been over £30). The pre-order model used to be that you ordered early to get a discount. The current model is that you order early to get some cosmetic bonus and a chance to play in beta/ early start. So while some retailers do still offer pre-order discounts in an attempt to compete, that model is dying.

But it shouldn’t really surprise anyone, given the old model, that someone might hunt around for a shop which did offer a pre-order discount instead of the frills. I still maintain everyone else was pushed into paying over the odds for the early start/ yellow crystal :p

By: Pardoz

Pardoz — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:37:01 +0000

So if EA had followed the increasingly-standard (especially in digital distribution) model of charging the full price up-front for pre-orders, you wouldn’t have gotten the incomplete/open box/floor model 5 dollar discount.

EA, in other words, are evil horrible and bad for being less evil, horrible, and bad than the industry standard.

By: DraconianOne

DraconianOne — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:58:06 +0000

Some (smaller, independent?) suppliers weren’t given pre-order codes but major retailers (as listed on the SWTOR website) were. The prices on those official sites ranged from £33 (Zavvi) to £40+ (GAME). Buying the game through Origin cost you full whack – £50 or something. Origin charged what they called a pre-order fee (actually a deposit if you read the support pages closely – don’t know why people didn’t) as did ordering in a physical GAME store. Ordering online with GAME or Zavvi didn’t require a deposit.

Honestly – the whole thing about paying more for early access is a myth.

Also, the pre-order codes aren’t tied to an order so if you pre-ordered, got the code and then cancelled the order, you could still redeem the code.

By: ZombiePirate

ZombiePirate — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:38:35 +0000

The Internet! The only place where smartass answers are retorted by even smarterass answers!

By: Tarbh

Tarbh — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:18:52 +0000

That’s not a £5 charge for everyone else, it’s a £5 discount for you. Presumably offered because they realised everyone knew there were pre-order items available and the copies they were selling didn’t have them, so they needed to offer an incentive or have no sales (except for non-clued in parents/relatives/non-gamers buying presents).

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:01:47 +0000

Sure, my basis is that I was able to find a shop that charged me £5 less for my copy /because/ there was no preorder bonus even though it was a preorder (I assume they’d only been provided with a limited supply of preorder codes.)

So from my perspective, everyone else was charged for their preorder code. I wasn’t because I got it from another source.