You've heard the rumors, you've seen the forum posts, but now it's official. Star Wars: The Old Republic has started game testing. SWTOR's Community Manager Sean Dahlberg made the announcement for this week's Fan Friday feature. Dahlberg expressed the developer's purpose in game testing in a post made on the official SWTOR forums: "Being able to have the community help us test The Old Republic is very important and valuable to the development process. The Game Testing Program allows community members to give us quality feedback so we can make adjustments and have a highly effective service and entertaining experience when we do launch."
The announcement briefly explains that testing phases will be conducted, in small focused groups from North America, then later expanding to other areas. Sorry, Aussies and Euros, you will have to wait. If you are selected, an email will come to the address you entered in your swtor.com profile. Although we have not heard it from an official source, we have been told by others who are currently testing that just because you were chosen to be a part of one testing group does not mean you will be a part of the next testing group. So jump on that email as soon as you get it.
If for some silly reason you have yet to sign up for testing, hop over to swtor.com now and do it right away!
[Minor Update: Bioware is calling these sessions Game Testing not beta testing. We have updated the article to reflect that.]
Reader Comments (20)
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 3:43PM (Unverified) said
*starts hitting refresh*
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 3:59PM (Unverified) said
now its time for our beloved Massively.com to flex its big muscles and get some beta cake to distribute to its loyal readers. riiiiight?
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 4:08PM MrGutts said
Guys,
If you haven't got a e-mail by now, you're not going to until another batch goes out. Probably in the fall.
If you haven't got a e-mail by now, you're not going to until another batch goes out. Probably in the fall.
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 5:07PM (Unverified) said
@Mcraider: we were told that some (or all) of us would be picked for the next phase of testing during the last playtest.
Keep hope alive!
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Keep hope alive!
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 4:31PM Kellathon said
OMG, I read this and then went to check my email and saw one from SWTOR and nearly had a heart attack, then realised it was thw Fan Friday email -_-
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 6:29PM (Unverified) said
Spring release!!
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 8:42PM (Unverified) said
Note, we announced "Game Testing".
- Sean
- Sean
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 9:30PM Larry Everett said
Thank you, Sean. I've updated the article to reflect that. I apologize for the mistake.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 1:38AM (Unverified) said
Dear Mr. Bioware man,
Beta invite pl0x.
Thank you.
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Beta invite pl0x.
Thank you.
Posted: Jul 9th 2010 10:49PM (Unverified) said
Good luck, their friends and family list has got to be absolutely massive. This is one of those, I'll give my left nut to test, but know it's probably never going to happen.
Posted: Jul 10th 2010 2:36AM Crode said
I also got a lottery ticket today. I wonder which I have a better chance of winning?
Posted: Jul 10th 2010 9:18AM (Unverified) said
Can't wait till it burns down in its own unjustified hype. :3











