PropheT wrote on Aug 20, 2011, 11:35:
The game is 59.99, it's just set up the way your invoice shows to keep it from charging you more for the preorder.

Gojo wrote on Aug 20, 2011, 10:26:
By the way, did anyone else notice that EA charged an ADDITIONAL $5.00 to pre-order???

Darks wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 15:30:

OldScho0l wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 15:11:
There's no way in hell that I'm going anywhere near this PoS.

Well, good luck to you then, I’m actually on the beta, and it’s Far from anything related to a POS as you deem it, I just love how someone like YOU can talk about a game that you haven’t even played one min of. “Another Armchair critic who thinks he knows it all” The game is actually been one of the best MMOs I’ve had the pleasure of testing and playing through. So enjoy whatever boring life you have.

Flatline wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 19:29:
I always wanted to see a Shadowrun MMO where player-created content is king. I want to see newsflash startup newspapers on the matrix, people creating corporations and designing shadowruns to rig the stock exchange and make a fortune. I want to see custom-built matrix fortress systems that players can design to protect their corporate data, and even potentially stuff like in-character player-created media.

Of course you'd have stock content too, but the idea that you could log onto Shadowland and see a list of player-initiated shadowruns on targets in the game world, or hire professional fixers/Mr Johnsons to interface with the runners for a fee would be interesting to me.

Give the tools to the players to generate content and you'll have people who want to do nothing *but* generate content.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Standard Edition $54.99
Pre-Order $5.00
Subtotal: $59.99
Shipping: $0.00

Estimated Tax: $0.00
Your Total: $59.99

Dev wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 21:20:
Seems like this was discussed earlier.

EA wants to save a few grand on servers since they are cheap, so they confuse and upset a bunch of people. Way to go! Despite the fact they have a ton of cash in the bank and are spending a bunch on marketing the game.

BTW EA, you know you can buy servers with 30 day money back guarantees then if you didn't get the sales, you could return them.

Bhruic wrote on Aug 19, 2011, 20:39:
Anyone who's been there for the launch of any popular MMO will realize you're wrong. Having massive queues for servers is no marketing drivel, when Rift came out, the queues during prime time were 2-3+hrs. And that was during the 7 day "early access", which meant the only people playing were pre-orders.

If EA plans to limit sales in order to avoid that situation, I'm all for it - assuming they are timely about adding new servers to open up more sales.

Pay no attention to this marketing drivel. Creating artificial scarcity to drum up sales is all this amounts to. If you want a copy, it will be available to you. Simple as that.