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Available copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be intentionally limited during its initial launch period, both for retail and digital sales. Reportedly this is for server stability reasons, or so an EA representative at Gamescom explained: once a certain number of copies are activated, EA will temporarily cut off digital sales (which are available exclusively through EA’s Origin system) and work on expanding the servers to compensate.

EA’s Frank Gibeau had indicated that such expansion will occur shortly after launch, stating that “We’ll be able to scale up and light up new severs on a fairly quick basis. We’ve got a plan to do that over the months following ship, and we’ve got a lot of capacity built into that.” No indication was given of what the player count threshold might be to restrict sales, though EA has previously indicated a substantial, albeit unspecified, number of preorders.

The Old Republic has not yet received a release date.

Source: 1UP