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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]

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Lucius86

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Derwind said:
I thought I just gotten an e-mail for Beta but EA/BioWare just sent me an e-mail telling me my EA account got hacked.

=_=

I got excited too. Alas, I will have to do something else with my time.
 

sammich

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It would be perfect if this came on 1 BD disk instead of like frigging 6 or whatever dvd's. Plus 28 GB these days is nothing in terms of space especially if you had thoughts of playing this game and what its doing. I never understood PC gamers going nuts about how much space a game takes these days. Back in the day sure, but never now. 2TB can be had for like $65 which in Canada is prob going to be the cost of the game anyway, so wait a month, get a 2TB and then the game.
 

Gvaz

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Ignis Fatuus said:
I think that might be crossing the line into things you should not say, precisely because it leads people to jump to conclusions.

But since that jumping has already begun, I'd like to state for the record that the total size of the game on disk is currently 28GB. Some of the downloaded files are redundant and overwrite each other. This is because it basically downloads the original and then patches it all the way up to the current version.
Your statement doesn't exactly improve anything. 38GB is freaking obese. 28GB maybe, but they better have partial download playability like in wow because for slow connections that'll take all week. Even for me at 2MB/s it'll take the better part of a day.
 

Shrennin

Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
CzarTim said:
Next person who brags about getting into the beta will receive a vat of my tears.

I wasn't going to say anything, but this is too tempting.

There is a game testing program and I am in it. :D
 

Derwind

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Beta1.png


Awesome!
 

Shrennin

Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Derwind said:
A hint at what it might be might be nice like "In depth look on a class" or "Consular Update today"..

:p

I'm going to take a guess and say it is the Imperial Agent progression video.
 

Derwind

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By the time we get a closer look at the Consular class, the game will be out already...

Oh well...

Still good update, video's are always welcomed by me....
 

bjaelke

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Derwind said:
By the time we get a closer look at the Consular class, the game will be out already...

Oh well...

Still good update, video's are always welcomed by me....
We already knew it wasn't going to be today. They said no consular update in June :)
 
bjaelke said:

Well they make lots of great points with how so many act about beta tests. So many basically use them as glorified demos and of course lot of companies putting out these big betas a couple weeks before launch that are not going to do much good, and when the game comes out and the bugs haven't been fixed from the "demo" beta, people bitch.
 

Giolon

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Derwind said:
By the time we get a closer look at the Consular class, the game will be out already...

Oh well...

Still good update, video's are always welcomed by me....

I wonder why they're being so secretive about the class...even the Inquisitor has more public information.
 

Derwind

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bjaelke said:
We already knew it wasn't going to be today. They said no consular update in June :)

I know but its the class I've been looking forward to playing and hearing about for so long. Yet out of all the classes, Consular is the only class that gets the least talked about...

Even the tester leaks don't show or talk about Consulars, the BioWare demo's rarely show a consular being tested out and we have no class video on the Consular.

Hell its class page on swtor.com is the only one still not updated.

I just feel envy washing all over me, watching other people learn more about there preferred class(I feel almost certain I'll have a Jedi Consular, Shadow AC as my main)..

And most if not all the Consular discussions have been towards the Sage AC...

But I know, July is probably the month. *crosses fingers*

Giolon said:
I wonder why they're being so secretive about the class...even the Inquisitor has more public information.

Who knows but I can't wait to see a demo of a Shadow being played, I'll know right then and there if I really want to play this class(which is most likely a "Yes")...
 

LowParry

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Well, that was kind of a weak update for this week. Must be running out of things to preview..........................................................................................................................................
 

Iadien

Guarantee I'm going to screw up this post? Yeah.
"The only way to experience these missions is to play the game."

You don't say?
 

water_wendi

Water is not wet!
Iadien said:
"The only way to experience these missions is to play the game."

You don't say?
Yeah i know, right? Such a tease. "Yea, ill just head down the store right now and pick it up so i can experience these missions."
 

CaLe

Member
Is it true that the latest beta invites are limited to 30 days of playtime ?

Could this mean we're nearing the end of the beta phase.. ?
 

antonz

Member
CaLe said:
Is it true that the latest beta invites are limited to 30 days of playtime ?

Could this mean we're nearing the end of the beta phase.. ?
If they are the 3rd party ones they are always limited timeframe betas
 
CaLe said:
Is it true that the latest beta invites are limited to 30 days of playtime ?

Could this mean we're nearing the end of the beta phase.. ?

I doubt it. Beta phase officially ends 6-8 weeks after the game is released. Standard practice for MMOs.
 

CaLe

Member
Ignis Fatuus said:
Haha. I doubt it.

Why would you doubt it ?

Either the game is not ready for release and won't be ready for 2011, or it will have to be released in August / September in order to avoid the Holidays very busy season.

In any case, either the beta ends in a few months, or its delayed to 2012.


TheRagnCajun said:
I doubt it. Beta phase officially ends 6-8 weeks after the game is released. Standard practice for MMOs.

Good one ;)


antonz said:
If they are the 3rd party ones they are always limited timeframe betas

Are these testers usually re-invited ?
 
My bro's fiance just got in the beta. She has to download/install it for 2 days though because it was 40gigs. Sounds like it's real good though... I never get into these things.

Now I stay at their house!
 

syoaran

Member
CaLe said:
Why would you doubt it ?

Either the game is not ready for release and won't be ready for 2011, or it will have to be released in August / September in order to avoid the Holidays very busy season.

In any case, either the beta ends in a few months, or its delayed to 2012.
They are ramping up media, having larger groups test the strain, hiring loads of community support for the MMO right now and the game is looking close to the polished stage. So the game is coming out soon. August soon? I don't know. But 2011 for sure. If it misses it, it's because of something unforeseen in the testing phase.

CaLe said:
Are these testers usually re-invited ?

Not normally, no. There are occasions, but I'd wager that about 90% only go though once.
 

Mordeccai

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I can't believe how hyped I am for this game. Ever since the NGE in SWG I've craved an awesome Star Wars MMO. My grades this fall semester are so fucked unless I find a way to ration my time, haha. Organic Chem, if you cut into my playtime I swear I shall slay you!
 

antonz

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Rflagg said:
Am I crazy or haven't they released a longer version of the video already? I am not complaining mind you it just seems like I watched this fight before.
we have certainly seen this footage in longer variety
 
Rflagg said:
Am I crazy or haven't they released a longer version of the video already? I am not complaining mind you it just seems like I watched this fight before.

It was shown off at E3 and players could play through this adventure, there was lot of footage online people posted of almost entire play roughs of this.
 

Rflagg

Member
Thank you both just didn't know if all this longing for beta and searching the web for information/media had took it's toll.:)
 
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