While Star Wars: The Old Republic will be releasing officially on December 20, one of the perks of pre-ordering will be the ability to play early. However, this promotional measure will work differently depending on when people pre-ordered the game.
“While we understand all of you want to be in Early Game Access on Day One, part of the point of a head start program like this one is to allow us to gradually ramp up the population of our servers so that on launch day, the general play experience is as pleasant as possible,” said senior community manager Stephen Reid. “While we’re going to be allowing a lot of people into Early Game Access at regular intervals, we cannot allow everyone who pre-orders in at once. That would defeat the point of a gradual head start.”
“The next obvious question is ‘I pre-ordered on Day X, when do I get access ‘ While we cannot answer that for everyone, I will say (as I did in July) that those who pre-ordered early will be getting Early Game Access, well, earliest,” added Reid. “At this point we still have pre-orders available and therefore, anyone who pre-orders will still gain Early Game Access, but as they’re redeeming their code later, they’ll get Early Game Access later. As I’ve said before the difference between ‘early’ and ‘later’ should be a matter of days, not weeks.”
Source: swtor.com
