Early Game Access Fail

Well it looks like Early Game Access to SWTOR will be “up to five days“.  I call fail on this. In the past, Early Access was described as a way for Bioware to ease people into the game without overloading the servers. It was also described as “significantly more than just a weekend”.  Since the game launches on a Tuesday (Dec 20), five days would be the preceding Thursday (Dec 15). That looks an awful lot like just a weekend to me.

I don’t see how spreading pre-orders in over just 5 days is going to significantly improve server access. People won’t have enough time to really spread out much that everyone is still going to be crammed into the started planets. I once again predict server queues.