All Star Wars: The Old Republic fans alike could be heard rejoicing this week as BioWare sent out invites for their third, upcoming Beta Weekend. The original invites were indicated to be limited to North American players, with the servers in question being based out of the East Coast of the States.
Well, now EU players can also rejoice! Stephen Reid dropped by the official forums today to let EU players know that ‘General Game Testing’ invites have now started being sent out for EU players!
EU SWTOR Fans, Rejoice!
“General Game Testing Invites are now being sent to EU testers.
Sent Nov. 10: General Game Testing Invites
- Who was invited: Testers from all European launch countries (see list here)
- What was sent: General Game Testing Invites
- Server locations: EU servers
- Invite status: Invites will continue to be sent during today. E-mails can take some time to be sent, so please check your www.swtor.com/tester page to be sure!”
“If you have received an invite to this weekend’s Beta Testing Weekend, but upon clicking the ‘Accept’ button in the email find that you’re being directed to a ‘missing page’ on the official site – don’t despair. You’re still invited.To solve this issue and accept your invite, simply login to www.swtor.com/tester and accept the invitation there.
Apologies for any confusion this error may have caused.”
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I know you must tired of this by now but, i really hope i get an invite
OMG first time I’ve been eligable (Norway), I’ll force crush someone (with my butt) if I don’t get an invite… F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5…..
F5 all the way!!!!
LMAO!! I live in upstate NY ( east coast) & didn’t get an invite when they were looking to test East coast servers! As soon as they announced Euro participation I revived my invite!!! I think I may have screwed up my time zone entry in my account settings
So YOU’RE the one that stole my invite!
Aye Carumba! F5 standing by…
F6, standing by!
Refresh Leader, standing by!
I don’t understand. In the official forums the beta-invites thread said this:
“Sent Nov. 10: General Game Testing Invites
Who was invited: Testers from all European launch countries (see
list here)
What was sent: General Game Testing Invites
Server locations: EU servers
Invite status: Invites will continue to be sent during today. E-mails can take some time to be sent, so please check your http://www.swtor.com/tester page to be sure!”
“So please check your http://www.swtor.com/tester page to be sure!”
Does that mean that if we don’t recieve an email right away we can just check our /tester page, and then if it doesn’t say that “you are now in testing” or something like that, then i will not be invited in this round of emails?
Or does it mean something else? I’m not quite getting it. If it that’s what it means, there will be no reason for me just sitting in anticipation staring at my inbox all night, lol.
If you get invited to this beta testing weekend, can you only play this weekend? Or do you play all weekends from then on? Or do you play whenever after that weekend?
To Jlewis – it depends on the invite you get. I believe (could be wrong) the terms:
Beta Testing Weekend = You play for the weekend (maybe a bit longer)
Game Testing Invite = You play until you’re cut off, which could be months. I’ve got a friend that’s been playing for a month and a half currently!
So for the first you can ONLY play on that weekend, i guess if you can’t play then it’s just tough luck
To ‘ThatGuy’ – So long as the emails are out-going you may well be eligible for this round of testing. The reason they say check the tester page is just in case your invite gets mistakenly put in your junk folder/deleted etc
Currently, you still have a reason to spam-check your inbox 
Thx for clearing that out man
Now if you’ll excuse me i need to get back to staring anxiously at my gmail inbox.
cheers
No invite… but I did just get a survey about the preorder program… sigh… BioWare trolling me again…
I got another mail from Bioware.
“You have received an infraction at STAR WARS: The Old Republic. Reason: Inappropriate Content”
My horrible, distasteful, and hateful remark?
“I appreciate Bioware’s position though… I just don’t understand why someone would bring religion into a videogame.” (referring to a post in the forum about a guy looking for a christian guild).
Seriously Bioware. I know you’re based in Texas. But I’ve just about had it with the moderators. Every time the subject of religion comes up, anyone who says anything remotely negative, like why bring religion into a videogame, ends up getting infraction points and bans from the forums.
It’s preposterous. I’ve never seen a game forum with such a blatantly biased moderator.
Rune, its not biased man, its negativity in any form wether its pro religion and anti athiesm or however you want to phrase it. Even just a nudge, someone will blow it outta proportion and troll and you know it. It just starts a bad thread of negative things that can carry on and on, so they have to cut the head off right away, thats just the way it is, same with most mmo forums.
Perhaps so. Does that mean the trick is merely to keep out of those threads? And if so, why don’t they just say so? :s
I really am curious as to what sort of response moderators would give if I asked for an atheist guild, a satanist guild, or… IDK a baby-sacrificing mayan religious bloodguild?
In any case, there is a murmur of discontent among the natives on the SWTOR forums.
I got one!!! Downloading now
HOLY COW! AFTER 3 YEARS I FINALLY GOT IT!
SOMEBODY PINCH ME I GOTTA BE DREAMING!
Darn i finally got one for this weekend but i only have time to play on sunday
:[ *grumble* *grumble* Red Zone *grumble* *grumble* *shakes fist* :[
There is no beta…. its just a Urban legend.
I will give you my last box of Wonka bars for an beta invite.
Crap… still dont have one
I guess I am lucky enough not to get one since I probably wont have time to play anyway but then why does this make me sad? :p
“You Have Been Selected to Test STAR WARS: The Old Republic!”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! I’m freaking out!!!! And weirder still, I only got it now, at 4.59 PM!
Someone at Bioware loves me afterall O_o
I GOT IN!!!! To night the night were going to make it happen. Im so excited. I just cant hid it. Im about to louse control and I think I like it. Lets get excited. We just cant hide it. Watch the video if you dont get it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY
My only problem is I’m not sure I’ll be able to download this whole massive thing until tomorrow :s
I think I’m in the general testing program, not the weekend one!
To make sure, check the email Rune. If there is a “window” of start and end times for game testing, then it’s a weekend run.
But I think the European Beta invites aren’t weekenders, but full-time, with the new multi-language builds they got, I guess.
I’m only in for the weekend myself, but it’s 53 hours I plan to make DAMN good use of!
Ahh, okay, thanks
I guess when I got the mail, I was too excited to take in the details. It doesn’t say anything about any timeframe, nor does the confirmation email.
I’m downloading at about 450kb/s now, so it’s going to be a while, I guess I’ll have to wake up in the middle of the night .
Odd still, that it said all invites had been sent yesterday at 8.33PM SWTOR forum time (CST?), and I got mine at exactly 4.59PM CET today.
Perhaps someone read my posts on the forum and figured the force (or criticism) is strong in this one
Although I did see on the forum that some people claimed to have gotten 2-3 invites, meaning they must have signed up many different email addresses or somehow gotten overlap. BioWare would have then probably continued to invite people until they reached the quota they need to accept in order to properly stress test etc.
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strange i got a inv for the beta but it say’s additional info will come soon but i never got a other email :S
but it was a big jaw drop when i saw the mail