BioWare setting up public TOR demo outside San Diego Comic-Con

@Dunraven

Pff. Rift was also only announced like a mere 2 months before launch, DCUO like 2-3 months, FFXIV the same. Of GW2, AA, TERA, TSW etc there's also no release date known. The impatience of some is simply mindboggling.

Ontopic, I heard that at some former conventions the rows had more than 5-6 hours of waiting period, having more stands sounds certainly like the way to go.

@Dunraven

Sure they have, they've been saying 2nd half of 2011 for a while now. You know it's not coming out this week or next week, you would think if it were due to come out in July or August, it would have been long announced by now to start raking in those preorders. So that likely leaves us, barring any major setbacks (knock on wood), sometime between September-December which never really was any surprise.

@Dunraven
They won't mention a release date until Guild Wars 2 shows its hand as well and they won't give Acti-Blizz the time to craft a huge new patch to combat TOR's release. I expect a 6-week window from announcement to shelves.

@Puremallace that arguments hold no water.

GW2 is nonfactor because, while at this point its pretty much set in stone that is THE game release to beat, ANet has showed they dont care at all about their competition, and will not rush the development a single day. They will release when they feel like it, with the confidence that the game IS that good can only give...

WoW is also nonfactor, because honeslty, they probably have that patch almost done or even already done and in the oven.
6 weeks, 6 months or 6 days windows doesnt matter, you can bet your life savings without fear of losing them that whenever SWTOR is announced, Blizzard WILL have that patch to counter it.

If you think about it, the only reason to hide their hand like this is the oldest of reasons...they arent confident in their product and are desperately trying to use every minute they can get to polish the game.

@(Unverified) it's a pretty safe bet that GW2 isn't coming out this year...

@Fabius Bile

Nonsense. I advise you to not drink and post at the same time, they don't go well together.

@Laurs
agree

@Laurs September has always been a reasonable target. If anything, Oct. November has too many hot titles coming out.

@Laurs They've said many times they'd still show the game after launch...

@Lateris

Lol, nah. I'm steering clear of predicting a date on this one.

@Laurs

I'm glad there's going to be story.