The announcement was made today during BioWare's New York Comic-Con panel, where our sister site Joystiq grabbed the news. Stay tuned to Massively for more from SWTOR and NYCC as it becomes available.
SWTOR's EU launch moved up to December 20th
by Shawn Schuster 
on Oct 14th 2011 4:15PM
Sci-Fi, Launches, New Titles, News Items, Star Wars: The Old Republic
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The announcement was made today during BioWare's New York Comic-Con panel, where our sister site Joystiq grabbed the news. Stay tuned to Massively for more from SWTOR and NYCC as it becomes available.
Reader Comments (22)
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 4:19PM undead77 said
Good news for Euros.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 4:35PM Rhodanum said
I wonder what made them decide to push the date back over here as well? From what was being debated in this very community, the delays seemed to be a case of our stores always stocking up later in the week than the US ones.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 4:51PM real65rcncom said
I smell servers crashing and burning...
I hope they have the Class D fire extinguishers because I bet metal is going to start smoking.
I hope they have the Class D fire extinguishers because I bet metal is going to start smoking.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 4:51PM Validus said
That's good news indeed. Now if only they'd let those of us in the rest of the world actually order the game they'd make a whole lot of SWTOR fans happier.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 5:29PM Marchosias said
Not only am i playtesting SWTOR, but i put my CE code in months ago....
I should be in the first wave of early invites to launch..
God I love myself.......Im so epic......
/pats self on back
I should be in the first wave of early invites to launch..
God I love myself.......Im so epic......
/pats self on back
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 5:39PM EuchridEucrow said
Just here to downgrade Ren54's post when he pops up like a retard jack-in-the-box.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 6:24PM real65rcncom said
@EuchridEucrow
Ren will not be doing that.
He's had a lot taken out of him due to Rift saying they would never put in micros and cash sales before and then they did this week.
He despises cash sales and loves Rift so.. it's been a bad week for him.
I'll give him credit though.. he stuck to his guns and say's he disagrees with Rift chasing the almighty dollar.
Now if we can just get him to look at TOR with a 'neutral' eye.... :)
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Ren will not be doing that.
He's had a lot taken out of him due to Rift saying they would never put in micros and cash sales before and then they did this week.
He despises cash sales and loves Rift so.. it's been a bad week for him.
I'll give him credit though.. he stuck to his guns and say's he disagrees with Rift chasing the almighty dollar.
Now if we can just get him to look at TOR with a 'neutral' eye.... :)
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 5:43PM FrostPaw said
Awesome news!
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 5:53PM Elikal said
YEY ^^
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 7:13PM Verus said
Excellent news!
For world of warcraft we had to wait quite a bit longer here in europe.
For world of warcraft we had to wait quite a bit longer here in europe.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 8:05PM doublerainbow said
This game is going to make Rift's launch look pathetic in comparison.
Finally a Blockbuster MMOG! First 3 months sales, minimum 3 million units sold, calling it now. You guys n gals better hurry up and PreOrder.
Finally something we all have been looking forward to since WoW's inception. Can you wait??
Finally a Blockbuster MMOG! First 3 months sales, minimum 3 million units sold, calling it now. You guys n gals better hurry up and PreOrder.
Finally something we all have been looking forward to since WoW's inception. Can you wait??
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 9:01PM Graill440 said
@doublerainbow
I dislike rift for a number of ignorant developer mechanics but one thing i grudgingly give is the launch they had. I enjoyed the rift launch as it was the single smoothest launch i have been part of, though the artifically created login cues made by the Trion devs had the game go downhill fast.
While rift started out great they quickly descended into the niche game they are today.
Now if TOR can pull off a smooth launch with no login ques and pump out content they will be able to easily strip rift of its one claim to fame, its launch.
And from what i have seen the last two times in TOR, it will. Of course the devs will figure some way to screw things up. Laugh.
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I dislike rift for a number of ignorant developer mechanics but one thing i grudgingly give is the launch they had. I enjoyed the rift launch as it was the single smoothest launch i have been part of, though the artifically created login cues made by the Trion devs had the game go downhill fast.
While rift started out great they quickly descended into the niche game they are today.
Now if TOR can pull off a smooth launch with no login ques and pump out content they will be able to easily strip rift of its one claim to fame, its launch.
And from what i have seen the last two times in TOR, it will. Of course the devs will figure some way to screw things up. Laugh.
Posted: Oct 14th 2011 11:06PM Mystal said
@doublerainbow
Looks a lot like WoW in space. It might sell a ton, and I think it will hold people for several months at least because they want to play through to max level to finish their character's story maybe, but will it have legs past that point? End game looks just like WoW, except of course maybe easier and with smaller groups.
Could suffer from the same problems that RIFT has, that it's just too much like WoW for disaffected WoW players to stick around for very long.
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Looks a lot like WoW in space. It might sell a ton, and I think it will hold people for several months at least because they want to play through to max level to finish their character's story maybe, but will it have legs past that point? End game looks just like WoW, except of course maybe easier and with smaller groups.
Could suffer from the same problems that RIFT has, that it's just too much like WoW for disaffected WoW players to stick around for very long.
Posted: Oct 15th 2011 3:26AM Mistdal said
finally a big US launch done both in US and EU at the same time, instead of the always silly "we should have it first" mentallity, not that Id have complained over 2 days
Posted: Oct 18th 2011 11:43PM (Unverified) said
@Mistdal
Eu will probably get it first......you know cause of time difference. But even then it won't matter much i guess since most people will be in early access.
Unless sadly early access is limited to only a few 100 thousand people from over the 600 thousand US pre orders ( i don't know about EU)
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Eu will probably get it first......you know cause of time difference. But even then it won't matter much i guess since most people will be in early access.
Unless sadly early access is limited to only a few 100 thousand people from over the 600 thousand US pre orders ( i don't know about EU)
Posted: Oct 15th 2011 3:38AM Bolongo said
I note that their own news article says "global launch date".
They then go on to specifically mention NA and EU, but still I wonder...
They then go on to specifically mention NA and EU, but still I wonder...
