newsfeed: Early Game Access will be up to 5 days

[News]

Since pre-order information was released, fans have been speculating on how long early access to Star Wars: The Old Republic would be. Stephen Reid has said in the past that it will be a matter of days, not weeks. Now we know that the earliest players with pre-orders will receive access is 5 days in [...]

 

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[adamqd]

I pre-ordered within the first 2-3 minutes, but it will take at least 3 days to download (30 GB +), so why 5 days? everyone has to download for early access, and unless you live in Korea, a majority of that time will be spent in the loading screen.

[Jeff]

I pre-ordered within the first 2-3 minutes, but it will take at least 3 days to download (30 GB +), so why 5 days? everyone has to download for early access, and unless you live in Korea, a majority of that time will be spent in the loading screen.

That's a good point, I didn't even think of that. I would hope their servers are extremely fast, but at the same time a lot of people will be downloading at once. We'll see how it goes I guess.

[adamqd]

I believe theres around 750,000 pre-orders so far, I know not all will be allowed access in the 15th (That is determined by your pre-order date) but thats still a hell of a lot of leechers hehe. I foresee server crashes.

[Mav]

I would hope it is handled like pre-loading from Steam, where you can start the download before the 5 days, but from what I've seen of Origin so far, I wouldn't count on it.

[DAWUSS]

I guess this is going to be another classic case of "good things coming to those who wait"

[Lynk Former]

Rather, good things come to those who have the best connection...

[Jeff]

Well like Mav said, hopefully there will be pre-loading. Pretty sure there was for Battlefield 3 which is Origin-only.