The Old Republic Ships Without Registration Codes

[Vrach]

This is not a promising start for The Old republic. People with early access have been reporting that the game still suffering from a number of bugs, and others are reporting that there are some <a href=http://www.1up.com/news/the-old-republic-long-server-queues>insanely long load server queues to suffer through. Hopefully BioWare is able to resolve this latest issue soon.

Bugs? In an MMO? *clutches pearls* My stars!

And no, not really. Haven't seen more bugs here, in a just newly launched product than in WoW that had several years to get shit sorted before I played it.

Server queues are completely manageable and nothing out of the ordinary, they'll be gone in a week or so when the server populations get stabilized. Raising caps too soon to remove queues would just mean further overpopulation, which is just counterproductive. Besides, anyone who doesn't like them can choose a ton of servers without queues, it's just that people tend to be stupid and roll on full servers for no reason (I understand if you roll with someone you know/a guild, not what I mean), then ***** about queues.

As for the whole no codes issue, yeah it sucks. But for anyone who pre-ordered, I hope they would be able to sort the issue before the grace period ends, I see no reason why they wouldn't. It's also noteworthy that this is probably a US-centric issue thanks to your retailers, considering EU got their copies days ago and could solve that issue several times over by now.

 

[Mauso88]

BioWare and EA don't have the development skills for such a complex undertaking such as an MMORPG, they will both be chasing these issues for many months to come.

 

[ckam]

Meh, wasn't expecting much anyways.

 

[Starke]

Didn't this problem already happen with another game? Can't remember what it was though. Is it too much to hope for companies to learn from mistakes?

It happened with STALKER Clear Sky. Though that one had a recall and a delay to make sure the codes were in the box when it finally did ship.

My favorite bug for The Old Republic is related. Apparently, it's possible to get an error while redeeming your code, so that the code is logged as in use, but not unlock anything on their account. There's a here [http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=37970] on the subject (you may need an account on SWTOR.com to view this.)

The best part is Customer Service is feeding most of these to chat bots that are passing themselves off as customer service reps.

 

[Strazdas]

they wouldn't have been able to play it anyway. I know a guy thats been beta tester since day one. Apparently for the first 3 days people had random disconnects, timeouts, crashes and to login back in they would have to wait 3 hour line, if their lucky that is. Sometimes you would wait in line and you get shafted back few positions even. It was pretty much unplayable anyway.

And then you wonder why people pirate games.... probably because at launch pirating is the ONLY way to play it.

 

[sleeky01]

The Star Wars: The Old Republic forums are jammed with users complaining that they bought the collector's edition of the MMO, only to find the registration cards inside the DVD case have no visible numbers. Also, it's being reported that some copies of the title don't even have game discs.

Hmm...Missing discs. I wonder if more than afew people in the factory decided to "try before you buy".

 

[Starke]

The Star Wars: The Old Republic forums are jammed with users complaining that they bought the collector's edition of the MMO, only to find the registration cards inside the DVD case have no visible numbers. Also, it's being reported that some copies of the title don't even have game discs.

Hmm...Missing discs. I wonder if more than afew people in the factory decided to "try before you buy".

Not sure about that, there are a few CE purchasers who say their Collectors Editions look like they were rifled through. But there are a lot of players saying their CD Keys are coming up as "already in use". Including people who got their keys in emails from Origin or out of sealed boxes.

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

I've had no problem with the product key myself.

As to the game itself, it's quite simple, if you like Star Wars, Bioware and/or MMOs, you need this game, simple as. It's a big bundle of well written love.

 

[Darwins_Folly]

My copy came with two registration codes, lol. I bet for every person without a code, there's someone like me with extras.

 

[brainslurper]

In other news, EA is borderline retarded.

 

[electric method]

I've only run into some launcher problems since launch. I was a beta tester for a long time and can say, most of the bugs that were in the beta are not in the launch client. The ones that are there are minor and most definately not game breaking.

The issues with server queues is people joining servers that are at high populations and are marked with "there will be x amount of time to wait before playing". So the wait times are pretty much all on the players. BioWare cannot control people doing things of that nature.