Star Wars Old Republic Beta invites

ZeitgeistGlee

Yeah, same place I got. It's ridiculous it took so long to get something as simple as that thread set up, so much hassle could've been saved over the last few months.

irishmover

I find it odd how I was invited last week to be put in the US servers. It doesn't really make sense to me.

ZeitgeistGlee

irishmover wrote: »

I find it odd how I was invited last week to be put in the US servers. It doesn't really make sense to me.

I think at the moment they're only testing the localisation of the game on the European servers, hence why only French and German testers have been invited. Keeping all the actual play testing in English on the one set of servers as opposed to both allows them to do stress testing as well I'd imagine.

irishmover

ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »

I think at the moment they're only testing the localisation of the game on the European servers, hence why only French and German testers have been invited. Keeping all the actual play testing in English on the one set of servers as opposed to both allows them to do stress testing as well I'd imagine.

At the time I thought it was due to the servers in Dublin not being completely ready to launch for testing which was a worry at the time but now I would probably think its what you've said. Anyway I probably said too much as I am a regular tester not a weekender so still bound by the NDA.

Ravage1616

irishmover wrote: »

At the time I thought it was due to the servers in Dublin not being completely ready to launch for testing which was a worry at the time but now I would probably think its what you've said. Anyway I probably said too much as I am a regular tester not a weekender so still bound by the NDA.

So in one word how is it so far?

irishmover

Ravage1616 wrote: »

irishmover wrote: »

At the time I thought it was due to the servers in Dublin not being completely ready to launch for testing which was a worry at the time but now I would probably think its what you've said. Anyway I probably said too much as I am a regular tester not a weekender so still bound by the NDA.

So in one word how is it so far?

Sorry opinions break NDA so really cannot say.

irishmover

Double post sorry.

VinLieger

irishmover wrote: »

Sorry opinions break NDA so really cannot say.

Bioware do actually watch these forums so for all the new testers be careful

ZeitgeistGlee

Really? If they were actually serious about preventing NDA breaches it's a wonder certain beta sites are still running.

irishmover

They watch all reasonably high traffic sites. Usually for people sharing streams of people in beta. Also they have shut down sites based on leaking beta for swtor in the past.

NDA is usually hairy and alot of things can get your account banned, so best to pretty much say nothing and just enjoy being in beta.

irishmover

http://darthhater.com/2011/10/14/nycc-2011-main-panel-live-blog/

3:26: Global release is now 12/20, no more 12/22.

ZeitgeistGlee

Huh, well isn't that a pleasant surprise.

Raphael

Yaay, I get to pick up my copy on release day.

Methionine

Raphael wrote: »

Yaay, I get to pick up my copy on release day.

If you have pre-ordered you have will have early access a few days before that, though obviously you will need the download the client to do that.

Raphael

I am aware, yeah. Just happy I get to grab my own box, will probably be heading down the country to my parents for christmas on the 21st - I'd planned to have a mate pick it up and send me the code.

irishmover

Methionine wrote: »

If you have pre-ordered you have will have early access a few days before that, though obviously you will need the download the client to do that.

27gb download for the beta and I dont think its changing by much for release. Took me forever to download the beta on 3mb broadband with a download speed of about 320kb/s:D

Ravage1616

Just got an invite....... I knew this would happen the weekend skyrim came out!

ShaneU

Got one too, terrible timing really

deconduo

Ravage1616 wrote: »

Just got an invite....... I knew this would happen the weekend skyrim came out!

I just got one too...

Despite being in the F&F beta for the last 2 months :pac:

ZeitgeistGlee

Ravage1616 wrote: »

Just got an invite....... I knew this would happen the weekend skyrim came out!

If you don't want it, I'll take it.

Blowfish

Ravage1616 wrote: »

Just got an invite....... I knew this would happen the weekend skyrim came out!

Bah typical, same here. I wonder if I could manage the entire weekend without sleeping.

Ravage1616

I tried to get tomorrow off work.... All I could manage is a half day!

I'm going to be a zombie by Monday!

Mr. K

Ooh, I got an invite! What's the next step?

Blowfish

Mr. K wrote: »

Ooh, I got an invite! What's the next step?

I'm guessing next step is to wait for the site to come back up as it's being completely hammered at the minute.

seanbmc

Invited just as I buy Skyrim, but still gonna play it

ZeitgeistGlee

Lads just to clarify, if your beta invite email says "weekend beta" it means you've got into the massive weekend one they've not yet announced a date for as opposed to the general EU beta.

Blowfish

Wait...what? Finally managed to get onto swtor.com/tester. No invite there, despite getting the mail.

They better not have f'ed up with the emails again...

[edit] Apparently it's the same for everyone. They really should have included in the mail that it's not accessible or even confirmed on your account yet.

Still, at least it leaves the weekend free for Skyrim

aligator_am

Just got an invite, didn't specify which weekend just an "upcoming weekend".

I suspect my machine won't even be able to run it though, a core 2 duo 1.8GHz with 4GB RAM and a banger of a Radeon X1300 card

String

I got an email as well saying I have been selected for testing. I actually hope its not this weekend as I will not put down skyrim at the minute!

Venom

Got the weekend beta invite as well