12/23/11 Update

I tired for 5 days. No such luck. I looked into every option that could be on my end. Firewall, router ports windows updates and still having installs fail. I also have to hit the repair option multiple time while downloading.

I have a few options left. My brother got that game installed fine so I think I’ll bring over a HD and copy it. If that doesn’t work I can try a torrent. Last I will try call customer service.

what do I do? I doubt I can get my money back.

Update 1/9/2012

Well getting a copy o the game worked until the latest patch. Now I’m back to where I can’t patch. More failing errors and messages to repair the launcher with no success.

I was surprised when I called customer service and got through in about 10 minutes to only find that they were stumped. That’s not a good feeling.

So I wait, perhaps I’ll grab another patched copy of the game from a friend

On the night of release of Star Wars: The Old Republic I finally decided to buy the game. I was hearing too much great things. I had to get it. So I coughed up the cash and did it.

The sign up and download was painless. As far as the patching the game…ick what a mess. I work 3rd shift so I sleep during the day. I started patching the game before I went to bed around 8am. I slept like a kid on Xmas eve. I was so excited to wake up and play with my new game. When I woke up it was like Santa shit in my sock. The Patch fail. So I tried again, fail. This happened over and over and over. Best part was it was failing on a video file. Every time I pressed the repair button the launcher crashed.

While I was repairing files and setting permissions and closing all other programs I was also searching to see if I was alone on this issue. Oh no….many others had this exact problem. The only good thing about that is that I knew it most likely wasn’t my PC. Searching the forums only made me more upset. Just the thought of all these other people out there who probably took the day off to play this game only to fight and fight with it.

I figured it was a server load issue but I still continued to try to download and apply the patch. I guess I really wanted to go to bed aggravated and I did. It is a new day though, most players are most likely in game now so today might be a better day to try again.