Bioware announced a long time ago that early access to The Old Republic would be staggered, your place in line would be determined by the date in which you ordered the game. So I decided to do a little test: About two minutes ago, I preordered The Old Republic on Origin. For those of you reading this on a different day, that is 1:10pm eastern on December 15th, 2011, or two days after the head start began.
The point of this experiment is to see how long it takes Bioware to catch up to the people like myself who for some reason held off of ordering the game, and how many days of early access we are granted. So I will update this article as soon as I am let in.
UPDATE: As of 2:21pm EST on December 16th, I am in. So two days missed out of the original “up to 5 days.” Not bad for the most preordered MMO of all time.
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