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Had a pretty lengthy queu to get on Corellian Run today, but I think that will work itself out within a week. Usually people spread themselves over the newer servers. I made a trooper and got to level 7. I'll be making a Sith Warrior soon too. I'm off work after tomorrow!

My schedule actually works pretty well with weird time zones, I'm up early and all that. The nice thing is there hasn't been any noticeable difference in lag between servers in different locations. Sith are Empire. Hence the Sith Emperor.

I am on Correlian Run for Republic, but I am might go for a different server for Empire. I think Raithe is on my same server, I won't be able to play until I get home later.

You must have missed all my other posts then where I often enough do mention how much I enjoy tis and dat. You guys need to remember everything is reversed Down Under in Crocodile Dungee territory. Morgoth is actually a very positive person. And yes, I am an ignorant American and my joke about the Hapsburgs was way worse.

Yay, I got my email for early access today. I also managed to cancel my Collector's Edition from Walmart, they seemed to be having some issues making sure it arrived on time. I did so because a bunch showed up on Amazon last night, and I was able to order through them with an estimated arrival date of Friday. The nice thing is that actually saved me $20 in shipping and tax. So hopefully Friday I'll have a nice shiny statue.

Krezack, you know I'm a big fan of your hippy stuff, but you sound like a total douche right now. This atheism movement doesn't seem to have any green agenda, by the way.

You have a problem with gift giving? Did you get socks as a child? I can't wait to watch my kids open their presents, it's an awesome moment.

'instances' are parts of the gameworld that are cut off from the general public. You enter then alone or in a group to complete story content, without worrying about other people interrupting.

Apparently there were a lot of nativity scenes. I'm not sure how pushy little baby Jesus is.

Well I received my Early Access and decided to whip up a character for it. Since Corellia Run is an East Coast server, I've decided to check out how capable it is.. have no noticable lag, so I'll poke around on there as well for the moment. Cool, once I get in I will add you to my friends list.

Atheists apparently have waged war on Christmas! http://news.yahoo.com/atheist-messages-dis...-194651974.html Honestly this reminds me of the little snot nosed kid who tries to ruin the magic of Santa for everyone else. You don't need to be religious to enjoy the holidays.

And if that's really all you took away from the game, then you missed a lot. I think there were some cool sidekicks or something. As I said, it was years ago and I'm an old man with way too many other things on my mind. It's a game, I enjoyed it, I'm not really sure what else I should have taken away from it.

Seconded.

It pays quite a lot of attention to it, actually. So far it has really bridged the two games, while setting the groundwork for TOR. But I think you and I have very different opinions of the KotOR 2 story. I played it years ago and have a very faint memory of the plot and characters. I remember enjoying it immensely, but I couldn't really expand on any of the details. I was an Exile, I fought a lot of sith, I lost my connection to the force but blah blah blah I recovered it and became a badass. Kreia was an old chick who was manipulating me and then we fought at the end. That's about it. Anyways, the book has covered that well enough to satisfy my crusty memory.

I guess I haven't really looked at the book from a female perspective. But I also don't have much in the way of expectations when I read these types of books. So anyone in on the first wave? I'm guessing you had to preorder on day one to get in today. I'm still hoping I will get in by Thursday.

One or two people mention it here, and it isn't particularly well rated. Somewhat amused that even the people who gave it a good rating made it sound pretty bad. Hey, I'm not going to tout it as a strong piece of literature either. It's a pretty basic book. If you aren't into the games, I can't imagine why you would read it, actually. It's pulp fiction that gives a nice little background story on a video game. Oner, I did notice you were dissecting the blog and I agree with your point. When I read that section of the book I didn't see any problem with the exchange. I haven't actually read the blog, it sounds a bit pretentious for my tastes. edit: Looking over the thread, I think Oblarg is the only one dissecting this stuff.

You guys are dissecting this stuff like it is serious literature. I barely remember the main plot points of KotOR 2, and nothing I've read of the Revan novel feels out of place. Lighten up, it's Star Wars, it's about lightsabers and guns that go pew pew. I don't remember spending much time in college literature classes studying trashy sci-fi novels, and I think there was a good reason for that.

I started reading the Revan novel last night. I don't see what the drama was about, it's a very nice bridge between the two KotOR games. I was delighted to read an exchange between Atris and Revan early on. It's also doing a good job of setting the stage for TOR. But I'm also not one to split hairs over how the Force works and all that. I'm just about a third of the way through it right now.

Publishers and developers are always going to butt head with second hand sales, it's the nature of the business.

The problem with your argument is that it should mean that indie games are less pirated than big budget DRM filled games. The evidence shows nothing of the sort, with some indie studios claiming that 90% of the people playing their games pirated them. Even the Humble Indie Bundle that was offered for 0.01 cent was pirated by about 25% of the players. That's insane.

I agree that we are experiencing a great period of indie development. The success stories of Minecraft and Braid has really inspired a whole slew of folks to go for the indie dream. But the piracy still sucks for those indie developers. They are usually only asking for a few bucks and their hard work still gets ripped off with way too much regularity. Piracy must be extremely frustrating for an indie developer. Don't give me any bull about free advertising either.

Yeah, I think the servers are pretty well prepared. Origin and the customer support are another concern. But hey, it's always good to remember patience with MMO launches.

Yeah, I hung up, reset my password, and that seemed to work. It's definitely concerning that customer service is this bad before the game is even released. Technically they should have way less volume to deal with right now. I did get excited to hear my Guild server is assigned. I will be adventuring on Corellia Run

What's wrong? Someone stole your sweetroll? Yeah, I had a student use that arrow in the knee line on me the other day for being late to class.

Based on my preorders, I'm guessing I won't get an email until Wednesday or Thursday for early access. I have one code from September and one in October. I was charged for my Collector's Edition, so hopefully that will ship out in the next couple days. I'm actually on hold with customer support, I'm locked out of my account because of a security code problem. I've been on hold an hour, what the heck?