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BioWare Explains How Early Access To The Old Republic Will Work
BioWare has stated that gamers who pre-order Star Wars: The Old Republic will be able to play the MMO early but didn't specify when or how early access will work. Today senior online community manager Stephen Reid sheds a little more light on the issue.
Reid posted an explanation of early access on the SWTOR forums, explaining that it will work on a first-come, first-served basis (or first-pre-order, first-play basis, as the case may be).
"Everyone who pre-orders Star Wars: The Old Republic and redeems their pre-order code
will get Early Game Access. Those who do this will be able to download the game
client and play the game ahead of the release date.
"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.
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."
BioWare still isn't saying when the early access program will start, but we'll let you know as soon as we find out.
[via Eurogamer]
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