Star Wars: The Old Republic Launch Date Revealed

Mark your calendars! Players will be getting their hands on Star Wars: The Old Republic this year!


BioWare just announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic will launch on December 20
in North America and on December 22 in Europe! BioWare co-founders Dr.
Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk revealed the dates during their keynote
address at the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in London, England.

Each copy of Star Wars: The Old Republic will come with 30 days of
subscription time, after which you have the option to continue playing
with one of the following monthly subscription fees:

• 1 Month Subscription: $14.99 (£8.99/€12.99)
  
• 3 Month Subscription: $13.99 per month (one-time charge of $41.97/£25.17/€35.97)
  
• 6 Month Subscription: $12.99 per month (one-time charge of $77.94/£46.14/€65.94)
  

There's still time to pre-order the game
to get early access before the official launch, as well as exclusive
items. You can choose between three different versions of Star Wars: The
Old Republic: the Standard Edition for $59.99, the Digital Deluxe Edition for $79.99, and the physical Collector's Edition for $149.99.


The community team at BioWare
told us that we would know when the train was coming, but it came
crashing through our house when half of us were still sleeping. As we reported earlier, Star Wars: The Old Republic
set its launch day for December 20th for North America and December
22nd for Europe. All the fans exhaled in relief, then promptly started
asking more questions.

First off, the Australian and New Zealand launch dates have not been
set, and BioWare cannot commit to a launch day yet for that region.
However, back in August, Senior Community Manager Stephen Reid
posted on the official forums that "There are no plans to 'region lock'
or 'IP block' players from the game. You may experience some latency
issues if you're not playing in a launch territory." This still holds
true today.

To prevent signup issues on launch day, log-ins will be throttled.
However, pre-order customers will still gain early access to the game.
Senior Community Coordinator Allison Berryman
reported on the official forum: "The beginning of Early Game Access
will depend on a number of factors, including results from our Game
Testing Program and Pre-Orders, but there will be multiple days of
access."

Lastly, in case you missed it earlier, BioWare did announce the
subscription costs. It comes as no surprise to most MMO gamers that the
first month is free with the purchase of the game. After that it's
$14.99 per month (£8.99 or €12.99), $41.97 for 3 months (£25.17
or €35.97), or $77.94 for six months (£46.14 or €65.94). There have
been no lifetime subscription announcements as of yet, but we will let
you know if we hear anything.

judging from this,with na and eu launch date being different.the pacific region could have its own servers and launch date as well.unless they decide otherwise and allow us to preorder the na or eu version since there is no ip block

Yea I was wondering about this too after reading the separate launch dates

its silly really.if its really limited to eu and na server i think most will go for cheaper server sub which should be na server since its should be cheaper currency-wise

Yep
And not to mention EU mmo communities tend to be split up by the makers of the games into
English/German/French (and possibly more languages as they see pleased)
Making the servers die out faster due to lower initial population

So NA or EU? :X

I pre-ordered will most likely get the early access package. Need to know where to join first.

if they are just opening 2 server region choice.then 99 pct will go NA ^^

i doubt we wanna go to a server where ppl speak french or german as main language hehe

Tsk tsk, EU servers the main language is still English

And French/Germans usually get their own server

If you are pre-ordering now though I'd go for NA anyway since if there is IP blocking our guild would pick NA for sure

And if there isn't: NA is the cheaper subscription

Just got an order update from Amazon.


"Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector's Bundle"
Previous estimated arrival date: January 04 2012 - January 06 2012
New estimated arrival date: December 23 2011 - December 28 2011


Hope it makes it in time for Christmas!

same
so i can't play day one

quilens wrote:

same
so i can't play day one

quilens got into the early access too?