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Best guesses on release date
Aceundor
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What are your best guesses on release date for SWToR or has there been any info on this?
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
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Holiday season 2011. There will be an official release date given in the coming weeks, most likely at PAX. Steven Reid has put on his conductors hat so we know the train has begun.
November 25, 2011 Black Friday
or
December 7, 2011 "a date which will live in infamy"
I'd guess November, but when in November I don't know.
They need a bit of time in advance of the holidays to turn it all up to eleven (marketing to those who've never heard of the game, for example) in order to maximize holiday sales.
Gives 'em a bt of space after the September large-scale tests they were talking about at SDCC too, in case they find they need to adjust stuff.
So, in and around 4 months from now. Wow, that's not actually too far away...
I keep thinking it's ages, lol.
Several retailers have September as the release date. Not an exact date, though.
I'll buy that, sort of, because the beta weekends start in September and they'd want 2-3 of those before head start begins.
They're doing it like Rift did and the beta testers say it's coming along nicely, and will "only" need 1-2 months to polish the newbie areas. Whatever that means.
Edit: I know retailer release dates change, but this one's fairly consistent across the retailers and, well, it's a plausible date.
Probably November 22nd for America and November 25th for the EU. I think most people have it slated for a November release in time for Christmas.
Sometime between October 18th and mid november is my guess.
They will want it out well in advance of christmas and ideally to catch the american holidays, September testing is what will probably make their final decisions.
Most likely they will be aiming to get it out in time for Christmas, which means a late November, early December release. The next best time after that is April.
Some MMOs choose to release January, but that is more often due to a late release due to aiming for the early December release.
Dec. 6th launch, Nov. 29th headstart folks.
MAGA
Late November, EA is releasing Battlefield 3 on October 25th and is unlikely to release SWTOR at the same time.
Nov 1st for early access preorders. Nov 15th for everyone else.