‘Twas the night before Early Access and all through the community everyone was freaking OUT
I awoke this morning to something that stopped my breathing for a full thirty seconds.
My computer wouldn’t turn on.
Pressing the power button didn’t work. Pressing it a second time, with somewhat more force and purpose, didn’t work either. Pressing it rapidly, as if to tell the computer that I was really and truly serious, proved futile.
Emitting a high-pitched whine, I scurried around cleaning out the dust from the case, plugging it into different outlets, and falling on my knees crying out “WHY MEEEEEE?” Was it my power supply? Did the whole thing just crash? Did Stephen Reid and David Bass commit a midnight raid on my house to thwart my efforts to play SWTOR this week?
Then, for no real reason, my computer decided to work. Crisis averted. Guess we’re a go for launch then!
This week may be more exciting to me than Christmas this year, sad as it is to put that in writing. I’m not just thrilled for SWTOR to finally, finally be here, but hey, LOTRO’s Update 5 is on the servers today and that’s pretty cool too. I’ve been trying really hard to get all of my big projects done for the week so I can be as flexible as possible for whenever BioWare decides to prank me with an early access invite. I’m guessing 3:00 am on Thursday, just about the point where my sanity slips away for good.
But yeah, everything’s kind of ready. I’m waiting to hear where my guild has been settled, I’ve got my launch class (Imperial Agent), advanced class (Operative… I think. Yes, Operative. Don’t second guess yourself!), attitude (light side), and crew skills (cybertech/scavaging/underworld trading) picked out, and I’m fully patched up. Just like many of you. Let’s go already.
Let’s GO.
There are few things more heady and exciting than an MMO release that you’ve been looking forward to playing, even though you’re half-expecting all of the traditional bad stuff to happen (crashes, queues, bugs, account difficulties, a billion people in chat comparing it to World of Warcraft). But still, it’s new, it’s exciting, you’ve got friends coming together from all over, the big day is finally here, etc.
It is almost surreal when something that you’ve been anticipating for a long time finally arrives. I’ve gone through this many times before — graduations, other releases, Christmas, wedding, births — and it never fails to just weird me out. Like I’m standing by myself, being super-calm when I’m jumping up and down inside going YIPEE!
So, yipee for this week’s SWTOR early access, and here’s to a great launch!
- Posted in: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Waiting to smell the smoke of the overloaded burning servers….
names, for Pete’s sake, names? Both preferred and backup. And legacy name. That one is important, do you have Legacy name down? And backups??
I hate hate hate being a downer. But…
Sir, that is a dark Omen. It may indicate hidden and lingering gremlins. If the system is a laptop, it might have some weird “deep sleep” mode that it enters if the battery is too low for too long; that crap freaks me out too. If it’s a desktop, check BIOS for any settings that may be related to motherboard-induced sleeping.
In any event, I’m glad it’s working again, but definitely follow up on this to be safe.
Have fun! I’m just as excited over EQ2′s Age of Discord, best expansion for the game for many years!
I’m also very interested to see the impact of SW:ToR on the various MMOs I play (although at the moment, thanks to AoD that’s pretty much just EQ2…)
Oh yeah, I’m good on names. I have a file of about 100 names or so that I pull from for most of my games. As for a Legacy name, it’s at level 30 and I’m just not going to think about it until I get there. No rush.
Agreeing with Thade: Don’t sit on that issue, investigate it before your rig goes belly up for godd. And back up your data. BACK-UP, BACK-UP, BACK-UP
Did I mention backing up?
good* Darn fat fingers.
I was getting a bit grumpy and scroogelike about how excited people were for SW:TOR, a game I can’t see even the remotest merit in..
..and then I got into the Diablo 3 beta. Now I’m happy for everyone to be as excited about their upcoming games, whatever they may be, as I am about mine!
The importance of backing up data is exceeded only by the staggering rate at which people do not back up their data. <3
That said…I recommend backing up your data.
Sweet effin’ flapjacks, tomorrow cannot get here fast enough.
The heatsink on my GPU decided to dismember itself yesterday. The fins partially delaminated from the copper backplate, which pulled the flat smooth copper surface away from the GPU and sprung the plastic cover on the card – broke the plastic around a couple of the screws. GTX570 runs REALLY FLIPPING HOT with no heatsink…
RMA started this morning, and it’s a good company (EVGA) but it’ll still be the end of the week before I get the replacement card.
I know how you feel. All too well. Last Saturday I wasn’t doing anything important (listening to online radio pretty much) when my Internet suddenly stopped working. Now, this happens on rare occasion, usually it’s just resetting the modem and things are fine. But this time it didn’t… and several hours later still no Internet. On the phone with my ISP’s support for a few hours, doing the usual test (“try resetting your router” “I already did that” “try it again anyway” “now try to do a p i n g”) and couldn’t figure it out, got kicked up to the tech guys. Who weren’t around just then.
So here I was panicking, not knowing what was going on, fearing some cables might have to be dug up with a “it’ll be fixed in two weeks… maybe”. But luckily by midnight things came back on. Crisis averted.
Now just hope it holds.
Got everything ready. Just got a few more Christmas gifts to wrap, but got nearly a week for that.
I just had to note that I loved the title of the post.
Started off normal, and then the tone went all giddy valley girl.