Star Wars Old Republic Beta invites

TheDoc

Check the mailbox folks, beta invites have been sent

Few of the lads I know got one, none for myself but I've got nothing but abuse from the lads. Was in a friends house there and his arrived, logged into mine to find nothing, gutted

Holla if you got one

String

Grr checked both accounts and no invite

ZeitgeistGlee

No go between myself and my brother sadly. Was hoping being an '08 account, nearly 4300 posts on the forums, one of the major instigators of the Jedi Sage name change and a CE Preorder I'd get one but I guess not.

Raphael

Nothing here, but delighted to see they're finally going out to Europe. Maybe soon...

Kiith

Nope, didnt get one. Not sure i want to either. Been in a few beta's, and it can lower my expectations for a game. I'd rather wait till release and be dissapointed then :pac:

Sonics2k

Got mine, honestly don't even know if I'll play it.

The whole real life money for items thing has me put off D3 right now, but I may give it a shot down the line.

On the plus side, this means I've been on every beta since WoW's beta. Not bad :pac:

Kiith

Sonics2k wrote: »

Got mine, honestly don't even know if I'll play it.

The whole real life money for items thing has me put off D3 right now, but I may give it a shot down the line.

On the plus side, this means I've been on every beta since WoW's beta. Not bad :pac:

D3? Diablo 3? This is The Old Republic beta thread...

Sonics2k

Kiith wrote: »

D3? Diablo 3? This is The Old Republic beta thread...

This is what happens when I post on forums within 30 minutes of waking up.

On the plus side, I appear to have my D3 invite early

But no TOR invite :-(

ZeitgeistGlee

Anyone know if they send them out continuously or it's just blocks of them once every week? Alternatively I suggest we group up and raid BioWare's office in Galway, I'm sure at least one of them will drop a beta invite.

Kiith

Sonics2k wrote: »

This is what happens when I post on forums within 30 minutes of waking up.

On the plus side, I appear to have my D3 invite early

But no TOR invite :-(

You only got up at 2pm and you have a Diablo 3 beta invite...

I hate you

TheDoc

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Anyone know if they send them out continuously or it's just blocks of them once every week? Alternatively I suggest we group up and raid BioWare's office in Galway, I'm sure at least one of them will drop a beta invite.

I'd say its done in waves so there isnt a mass influx of people. Typically in betas every next block is larger then before to start stressing the hardware and forecast for Q management and performance.

Greylor

No beta makes me a sad panda

ZeitgeistGlee

Ugh, had seven new emails sitting in my inbox a few minutes ago, praying that one was a beta invite. No joy again sadly.

VinLieger

Im getting one next week through different means

ZeitgeistGlee

Well BioWare have really managed to stir themselves up a ****storm today.

Based on a tweet from SR, we've basically been told that not only are beta weekends not simultaneous between EU and US, but that EU guild and individual testing are essentially still completely up in the air as to when they'll occur. A lot of players are even beginning to question whether we'll see simultaneous release dates for the EU and US or whether it'll be staggered. It's even more ridiculous that our vaunted EU Community Manager hasn't said a word, but then this is essentially an identical reaction to when the preorders were done. :rolleyes:

Full thread here.

Doc can you confirm your friends have actually got beta and are testing on European servers or are testing and are on American ones ?

TheDoc

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Doc can you confirm your friends have actually got beta and are testing on European servers or are testing and are on American ones ?

O not sure actually, all I know is the IM's, texts and phonecalls I get from them asking am I jealous yet....

They are giving it really good feedback, really impressive according to themselves.

ZeitgeistGlee

Awesome, almost makes the jealousy bearable.

Kiith

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Awesome, almost makes the jealousy bearable.

Almost

VinLieger

VinLieger wrote: »

Im getting one next week through different means

Downloading it now :P

Lister1

Any chance of you sharing your "other means" with the rest of us?

VinLieger

Not really possible unfortunately, but i have heard there will be a larger batch of european invites going out in september

Methionine

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

Well BioWare have really managed to stir themselves up a ****storm today.

Based on a tweet from SR, we've basically been told that not only are beta weekends not simultaneous between EU and US, but that EU guild and individual testing are essentially still completely up in the air as to when they'll occur. A lot of players are even beginning to question whether we'll see simultaneous release dates for the EU and US or whether it'll be staggered. It's even more ridiculous that our vaunted EU Community Manager hasn't said a word, but then this is essentially an identical reaction to when the preorders were done. :rolleyes:

Full thread here.

Doc can you confirm your friends have actually got beta and are testing on European servers or are testing and are on American ones ?

I've been expecting a later release date for the EU all along, let's just hope it isn't the 3 month gap that EU players had to wait when WOW was released first.

Raphael

I saw a post somewhere that there will be a Tuesday/Friday stagger of the games launch, due to when new game day is in different countries, but outside of that it'll be a simultaneous launch.

AL][EN

VinLieger wrote: »

Not really possible unfortunately, but i have heard there will be a larger batch of european invites going out in september

Herd that too, think word state side is the mass invites for final testing will be in mid to late sept once they get the feedback / bug tweaks from that your talking about mid to late oct for early game access with game launch probably nov (that's all speculation id like to point out)... plus i work for the company that's putting in the datacenter for bioware (ssshhh) with the amount of kit they got coming in i imagine its going to take time to tweak all this stuff.

It'll be worth the wait

ZeitgeistGlee

Methionine wrote: »

I've been expecting a later release date for the EU all along, let's just hope it isn't the 3 month gap that EU players had to wait when WOW was released first.

After about 2,500 posts in EU-related threads for two solid days we managed to a response out of Reid which wasn't just (or at least, wasn't all just) "Soon/we're not talking about that right now":

- Launch will be the same week for both NA/EU with a Tuesday release for NA and a likely Friday for EU (hopefully GAME preorders might snag an earlier one).

- Headstart appears to still be simultaneous, although Reid also seemed to hint later that they may be broken up by release territory.

- BioWare as still "discussing" whether or not EU headstart will be extended to cover the difference between headstart end and proper launch. Again later however he seemed to say that headstart will end at launch.

- EU testing (regular and guild) are still "soon", beta weekends for EU are still also "soon".

- Didn't know whether or not BioWare would be using the same datacenter currently used for what's left of WAR's servers (He didn't actually understand why that was relevant).

- Feels that dropping big announcements like red/green zones and EU not being simultaneous for just about everything with the US through twitter while at games shows represents "fair and open communication". :rolleyes:

That was pretty much it.

Raphael

Well, if our headstart hits at the same time, and is just longer than in the US, then it does somewhat reduce the problems of the 4 day launch gap. And also lets it lord it over people more. =p.

Really hope they don't just give us a 3 day headstart before a friday launch though. Midweek early access would be kinda a dick move.

ZeitgeistGlee

Indeed Raph, to be honest I'm not really going to try to be sure of anything until it's put down in black and white.

Raphael

Good policy.

AL][EN

Raphael wrote: »

Really hope they don't just give us a 3 day headstart before a friday launch though. Midweek early access would be kinda a dick move.

Damn straight it would id need to start booking holdays soon so might just take all of oct and nov off just have all my bases covered

Raphael

Heh, I'm actually hoping for a November release. October has my fiancées birthday, and Gaelcon.

Methionine

Apparently weekend beta invites have started going out in the US as of yesterday for this weekend. It'll be a different bunch of invitees for each weekend. Do not know what the story is with EU testing, have read a rumour that a wave of full beta EU invites is going out soon, which will be testing against US servers.