What is sad and utterly ridiculous is that you and many others keep arguing over nothing with two individuals, who are clearly in the wrong, so that the actual point of this thread becomes more than just a little cloudy.

There's nothing particularly horrible about waiting five days. The thing is that some of those "exceptions" probably won't be resolved until the 27th and imo it's considerably worse to not let them access the new content, although they have every right to, than just letting everyone in - isn't the most important rule of damage control to find a solution that makes as many customers happy as possible? And by this I'm mostly referring to those who are still denied early access, despite qualifying for it. As for those who misunderstood the requirements for getting early access: Yes, they should have read everything but at the same time it shouldn't be necessary to read everything to understand what you're going to get; at least not with something like this. The whole concept behind the KotFE early access was a bad idea to begin with and problems were to be expected, but now that it's time to properly remedy the situation, they're going about it the wrong way.

Eh, they kinda did from the start. Since you are part of a group that feels just as much entitled as all of the so called "whiners" who didn't read the terms. I have early access, I've already finished the story once and now, 2 days later and after all the fuss on the forums and social media, it would absolutely be the right and sensible thing to do to let everyone play; especially considering that there are still subscribers left who should have access but don't because Bioware f*cked up and they don't seem to be able to sort out all of those individual mishaps.

And as I already mentioned, I don't even disagree with that. Still, good and distinct marketing wouldn't make it necessary to read the whole page; both the standard advertising banners and the e-mails that were sent out last week were purposefully vague and that is as much of a fact as having to read the "Terms and Conditions" to fully understand the whole package.

No, the point of this thread is that the conditions of its exclusiveness were more than just a little vague.

The Early Access itself is exclusive, the content is not. And good job completely ignoring everything else I wrote.

I do, but apparently you aren't aware that Early Access isn't exclusive content, while something like the Founders title; or pretty much every other KotFE subscriber reward; absolutely is. You're getting the same content as everyone else, it doesn't matter if you play it now or in a few months, this particular content will stay the same. The same concept doesn't apply to titles or items that can only be obtained during a certain period of time and are completely unavailable afterwards. We're talking about 7-9 hours of story-related gameplay here. Many of us who were eligible for Early Access have already completed the story once, so I miss the point in making everyone else wait a whole week, especially considering all the fuss and disappointment, when 2-3 days would have been more than enough.

How exactly would EA be taken away from us by letting others join in? And yes, it's completely different from handing out time-conditioned titles for free; in fact, it could hardly be more different. Yes, the terms were perfectly clear if you took the time to read everything and yes, people could and should have read everything, but that doesn't change the fact that the advertising was purposefully vague - back when I first saw it, I knew that there would be A LOT of upset customers at the start of the Early Access.

By far the most sensible post I've read in a while. That pretty much sums it up and should have been /thread.

Alright, this guy is a lost cause. Move along people.

It answers your question perfectly well - "through" basically means up to and including the specific date. Since it requires a subscription from August 10 up to and including October 19 (or at least being a subscriber at each of the reward dates), you're not getting early access.

Say, I'm really curious, is whining and ************ on the forum your full time job? Because if it's not, and I'm saying this in all seriousness, it's actually worrisome to read your name, literally, in every other thread. Chill, stop and consider your blood pressure for a minute and most importantly... learn how humor can help your heart!

Seriously? People even find ways to ***** and whine about one of the few things SWTOR does better than pretty much all the other successful MMORPGs out there? wow... just wow. I'm literally speechless.

I'll use my free level 60 character to play through the KotFE story for the first time. Since my main is a Sent and because I really, really need the armor set of the instant 60 JK, the decision is pretty easy.

Because they didn't. The person you quoted probably misunderstood what has been said, which is, that each chapter would have at least one hour of story content (cutscenes, conversations etc.), with some chapters being longer than others. So, if that's true, we'll get at least 9 hours of story content from the first 9 chapters and that's not counting the actual gameplay. I think people are severely underestimating how much 1 hour of story content per chapter actually is - considering that our 1-50 class stories offer no more than 5-8 hours of story, give or take a few minutes.