I set out this morning to buy the digital version of the game yet to my shagrin it was 'sold out' which really turned me off to buying the game at all. My question is that I heard on the Origin browser that it's being sold but not on the website. I uninstalled Origin after the Battlefield 3 Beta because I found it really obtuse and haven't reinstalled it since. Anyone know if I can just buy the regular edition online digitally?

I don't want the digital deluxe version or a physical copy of the game so yeah, anyone know where I can get it digitally?

I'm pretty sure they're not selling any more copies right now is because they don't have enough server power to accommodate everyone who wants to play, and they can't afford to increase queue times even MORE (I've heard they're already outrageous). Once they get more servers, or user population drops down, they'll start selling the digital copies again- but they've been telling us they were going to throttle pre-orders and digital sales for awhile now, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

@thabigred: @TooWalrus: I noticed this, then I went to my local games store, picked up a boxed version which started straight away after install.

Are you sure you're reading this right? I'm on Origin right now looking at it and it only says that the physical copies are temporarily sold out.

@poisonmonkey: Absolutely- they budgeted for the boxed copies, they know exactly how many of those are out there...

Call me stupid but how do you sell out of a digital version of a game?

@mikey87144 said:

Call me stupid but how do you sell out of a digital version of a game?

Exactly. Does it have to do with bandwidth maybe?

It's so they can stabilize the population they already have.

Yeah it'll be that. It makes sense to limit the amount of people, if you remember the WoW launch you will be happy they're doing it this way. Holy shit that was broken.

They said they were doing this months ago. I remember the bombcast calling them liars.

Given the queues reported - they were right to limit it at launch but they didn't go far enough.

@Sooty said:

Yeah it'll be that. It makes sense to limit the amount of people, if you remember the WoW launch you will be happy they're doing it this way. Holy shit that was broken.

It seems more like an artificial way to create demand more than a way to keep the servers from going laggy. I mean the maximum player count is already throttled on the servers according to Jeff so yeah. If I can't buy the regular edition online I'm not going to buy the game, it's as simple as that.

@Brodehouse said:

@thabigredYou can't create demand by limiting supply, demand is demand. People don't want products more because of a low supply. The only thing that affects demand is quality and price.

I really wish people were as rational as you make them out to be.

@thabigred: Read the origin website more closely, you can buy a digital copy, its the PC physical copy selection right below it that is sold out. I love outrage over something that doesn't even exist as much as the next guy, but come on now.

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/html/pbPage.SWTOR_NA?easid=Origin-SWTOR_Web_Hero_BuyNow

@Renahzor said:

@thabigred: Read the origin website more closely, you can buy a digital copy, its the PC physical copy selection right below it that is sold out. I love outrage over something that doesn't even exist as much as the next guy, but come on now.

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/html/pbPage.SWTOR_NA?easid=Origin-SWTOR_Web_Hero_BuyNow

Well I feel like an idiot. I mean it said it was sold out so I didn't even think to click buy now...

Well fuck. I wonder how many people are just like me because I've seen people saying this all over the internet.

@Brodehouse said:

@thabigred You can't create demand by limiting supply, demand is demand. People don't want products more because of a low supply. The only thing that affects demand is quality and price.

Apparently you don't live in the same world as us where Apple is a huge tech company.

Demand can absolutely be artificially created. Quality and price have less to do with the success of a product than most of us would like.

@Brodehouse: read my reply above, they aren't limiting digital copies, its the physical copies via origin that are sold out.

They were limiting special edition copies for a while back about 9 months ago, those also included early game access, I would assume that was the limiting factor. Regardless, they stopped doing that as well.

@Brodehouse said:

@Rolyatkcinmai No, demand is demand because people want it. People don't want it BECAUSE it's a limited item. They want it because they want it. Because it's in low supply, Apple can raise the price until it ensures maximum sales at maximum profit. But the reason people want the iPad is absolutely not because it's in low supply. This is simple microec, guys.

Clearly you have very little grasp on basic economics then. People buy things because they're in limited supply all the damn time.

I caved and bought a physical copy yesterday. This is my first MMO and the only reson I was interested was because I love Mass Effect and Bioware's style of story telling, so far I am really enjoying it. I don't know how this MMO queue stuff works but I picked a medium sized server and have not had to wait at all to play.

@thabigred You can't create demand by limiting supply, demand is demand. People don't want products more because of a low supply. The only thing that affects demand is quality and price.

@Renahzor said:

@thabigred: Read the origin website more closely, you can buy a digital copy, its the PC physical copy selection right below it that is sold out. I love outrage over something that doesn't even exist as much as the next guy, but come on now.

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/html/pbPage.SWTOR_NA?easid=Origin-SWTOR_Web_Hero_BuyNow

This thread is needlessly generating hate for EA. I hope it gets locked.

@Brodehouse said:

@Rolyatkcinmai I think you should actually take a microec class. Anecdotes about conspicuous consumption aren't relevant. No one bought an iPad because there were few of them. If there were millions of ipads, they still would've bought them. Because they wanted iPads.

Dude why do you think limited editions of products exist?

@themangalist said:

@Renahzor said:

@thabigred: Read the origin website more closely, you can buy a digital copy, its the PC physical copy selection right below it that is sold out. I love outrage over something that doesn't even exist as much as the next guy, but come on now.

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/html/pbPage.SWTOR_NA?easid=Origin-SWTOR_Web_Hero_BuyNow

This thread is needlessly generating hate for EA. I hope it gets locked.

They need better website design or this sort of thing wouldn't happen. This complaint I made is all over the internet.

I just checked Origin and they're stil available. It's the physical copies that aren't available.

@thabigred said:

@themangalist said:

@Renahzor said:

@thabigred: Read the origin website more closely, you can buy a digital copy, its the PC physical copy selection right below it that is sold out. I love outrage over something that doesn't even exist as much as the next guy, but come on now.

http://store.origin.com/store/ea/html/pbPage.SWTOR_NA?easid=Origin-SWTOR_Web_Hero_BuyNow

This thread is needlessly generating hate for EA. I hope it gets locked.

They need better website design or this sort of thing wouldn't happen. This complaint I made is all over the internet.

I'm pretty sure the "PC Digital Download" is ticked. If the red font is right next to "PC Physical Copy" then I guess it would be better to read. But still we're talking about the internet - complaining is easier than actually reading..

Closing this thread, the digital edition isn't sold out, only physical copies from the Origin store are.