Star Wars: The Old Republic

instant0 · 2011-12-13T03:10:18.000Z

The CE so you get a KeyFob tied to an EA Account, but it doesn’t actually work for anything else on your EA account :)

Ryslin · 2011-12-13T03:10:46.000Z

Cal:

Not sure they are doing it on date of pre-order. I only pre-ordered 4 days ago and my start date is 13th December 7am!!

Yay! - shame im at work!

No …you are not on the first day.
That email is a standard “the servers go live” email everyone got
there is a separate email that only comes out today after 7am (or later) telling you that you are now live

Not a given time, just hey bud log in.
Sorry to burst your glee.

Dejin · 2011-12-13T03:15:08.000Z

instant0:

The CE so you get a KeyFob tied to an EA Account, but it doesn’t actually work for anything else on your EA account :)

That’s the full Collector’s Edition though, not the Digital Deluxe Edition. The items in the Digital Deluxe Edition are:

[ul]
[li] Flare Gun
[/li][li] Training Droid
[/li][li] HoloDancer
[/li][li] HoloCam
[/li][li] Single Trooper Aerial Platform
[/li][/ul]

Mysterio · 2011-12-13T03:15:39.000Z

instant0:

The CE so you get a KeyFob tied to an EA Account, but it doesn’t actually work for anything else on your EA account :)

I didn’t list the CE, since it appears to be sold out everywhere. So I’m considering the SE or DDE.

Mysterio · 2011-12-13T03:17:24.000Z

Dejin:

The items in the Digital Deluxe Edition are:

[ul]
[li] Flare Gun[/li][li] Training Droid[/li][li] HoloDancer[/li][li] HoloCam[/li][li] Single Trooper Aerial Platform[/li][/ul]

Yup. I saw that on the website. Just wondering which one Qt3ers were getting and if they feel the DDE items will be worth the additional $20.

wolfbane · 2011-12-13T03:20:39.000Z

Cal:

Not sure they are doing it on date of pre-order. I only pre-ordered 4 days ago and my start date is 13th December 7am!!

Yay! - shame im at work!

Since no email has gone out yet I think you have misread your pre-load email.

Charlatan · 2011-12-13T03:25:39.000Z

The Aerial Platform is an actual speeder, I believe, one of the speeders you can purchase at level 25. You can’t use it until then, as you can’t get the training before 25. In-game that would cost 8k credits, which sounds like a lot, until you realize the training costs 40k. So it’s like completing two to four quests at that level I would think.

The other items seem like fluff. I believe the Training Droid is a non-combat pet, though it doesn’t say that. Everyone gets a non-combat pet, so you’d have two. One of the Empire classes gets a little droid named L2-P2. I was amused.

The HoloDancer is probably a version of what’s in the cantinas. The flare gun is … heck, I dunno, a flare gun. The HoloCam sounds interesting but is probably just some sort of animation of you recording stuff - if it really was some way of recording movies in-game that would be cool.

So the bottom line is, you’re paying $20 for a virtual speeder that you can easily earn in-game, and for some other fluff items that you might pull out now and then. Is that worth $20? To some people it may be. I ordered the Standard Edition because none of that seemed that interesting to me.

Mysterio · 2011-12-13T03:33:39.000Z

Charlatan:

The Aerial Platform is an actual speeder, I believe, one of the speeders you can purchase at level 25. You can’t use it until then, as you can’t get the training before 25. In-game that would cost 8k credits, which sounds like a lot, until you realize the training costs 40k. So it’s like completing two to four quests at that level I would think.

The other items seem like fluff. I believe the Training Droid is a non-combat pet, though it doesn’t say that. Everyone gets a non-combat pet, so you’d have two. One of the Empire classes gets a little droid named L2-P2. I was amused.

The HoloDancer is probably a version of what’s in the cantinas. The flare gun is … heck, I dunno, a flare gun. The HoloCam sounds interesting but is probably just some sort of animation of you recording stuff - if it really was some way of recording movies in-game that would be cool.

So the bottom line is, you’re paying $20 for a virtual speeder that you can easily earn in-game, and for some other fluff items that you might pull out now and then. Is that worth $20? To some people it may be. I ordered the Standard Edition because none of that seemed that interesting to me.

Your thoughts are similar to mine, and I was curious how difficult it would be to acquire the Aerial Platform in the SE. Thanks for the info!

Cal · 2011-12-13T03:40:43.000Z

I think Origin just charged me £5 and the rest was refunded until release, although i dont have access to my online banking to confirm

ImaTarget · 2011-12-13T03:41:52.000Z

Amazon Germany just emailed me that my CE is on it´s way. YAY!

Dejin · 2011-12-13T03:42:53.000Z

Mysterio:

Yup. I saw that on the website. Just wondering which one Qt3ers were getting and if they feel the DDE items will be worth the additional $20.

Well, I think this is an area where it really depends on how much spare cash you have to spend on frivolities. I bought the DDE, but I’m a bit embarrassed about it, as if you look at the items, I really don’t see $20 worth of value.

I thought the HoloCam might be cool, but from what I’ve heard, I’m no longer all together sure what the difference between it and hitting the screenshot key is. I thought it might do movies, but it doesn’t. I suppose it’s still possible it might do 3d screenshots, which would be very cool. But I really don’t know.

Cal · 2011-12-13T03:49:26.000Z

Ryslin:

No …you are not on the first day.
That email is a standard “the servers go live” email everyone got
there is a separate email that only comes out today after 7am (or later) telling you that you are now live

Not a given time, just hey bud log in.
Sorry to burst your glee.

Damnit your right!

Charlatan · 2011-12-13T04:03:06.000Z

7:01 and no email… BioWare sucks!

Oh yeah, I didn’t pre-order and register my code until October, so I just hope to get in before the weekend.

Zephyr · 2011-12-13T04:05:33.000Z

Nothing here either and I ordered it the day it was first available.

Jason_Townsend · 2011-12-13T04:06:05.000Z

I registered early and am accordingly trying to login though sheer force of will in the absence of an email.

With my fricking 17-character password.

EDIT: Hm, at some point the launcher began accepting pasted-in passwords. That’s something.

Skorin · 2011-12-13T04:07:42.000Z

Charlatan:

7:01 and no email… BioWare sucks!

Oh yeah, I didn’t pre-order and register my code until October, so I just hope to get in before the weekend.

I preordered the day it was available… then didn’t apply my code for a month out of sheer laziness. I am so smrt.

Dejin · 2011-12-13T04:08:31.000Z

Zephyr:

Nothing here either and I ordered it the day it was first available.

I ordered within 4-hours of the pre-order announcement. No e-mail :-(

FWIW Bioware promised they would tweet after they sent out the first round of e-mails, and there’s nothing on their twitter feed.

Razgon · 2011-12-13T04:08:51.000Z

Skorin:

I preordered the day it was available… then didn’t apply my code for a month out of sheer laziness. I am so smrt.

its because Bioware hates people who doesn’t write out their words…

Razgon · 2011-12-13T04:10:28.000Z

Btw guys (ha ;-) ) , according to swtor twitter, they havent sent out any mails yet, so there is still hope.

You can of course, always try to login and see if you are lucky :-)

Jason_Townsend · 2011-12-13T04:11:13.000Z

No email yet but I’m in.