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Beta signup begins for Star Wars: The Old Republic photo

If you're excited about the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic, you may have a chance to get your hands on the MMO early -- Shacknews is reporting that beta signups are now open. The process sounds fairly standard: fill out your information, upload a DxDiag file, and sit around and wait hoping that you're chosen to participate.

LucasArts has said that there will be a limited amount of people accepted (big surprise), and that the earlier you sign up, the better your chances are of being chosen. In order to register, you need to make an account at the website and select 'pre-release testing option' from the account page.

What are you waiting for? Go sign up here!


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Midgetsnowman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:42
Midgetsnowman
Wow. The sites already gone down for maintenance due to traffic o.o
kauza's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:43
kauza
Way to break their site Jonathan! ;)
KrazyKraut's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:43
KrazyKraut
yeah checked the site 5 sec before...down cause of high responses^^
andycadaver's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:44
andycadaver
Oh HELL YEAH.
Arianol's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:47
Arianol
Bummer.
Trust's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:49
Trust
It would be great to get into this beta.
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 11:58
Ganjookie
Thank you for visiting www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com. We are making adjustments to the site due to the overwhelming response to the testing announcement. Please be patient and check back later. We estimate that the site will be back up in the next few hours.

May the force be with the web monkeys
Ibutsu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:02
Ibutsu
That was quick. Anyone know if this has subscriptions? I think its yes. v_v
Midgetsnowman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:06
Midgetsnowman
any decent MMO does. Without a sub fee they cant hire a dev team to keep things running as smoothly.
Arianol's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:09
Arianol
LOL they keep changing the error message. I've seen 3 thus far.
bunnymud's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:16
bunnymud
You can have this game. So far it looks very "Ho hum" and nothing new
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:22
Magnalon
I'll be in the beta one way or another. Every week in my podcast I talk it up as "the next WoW": if I don't get into the public test, I'll be knocking on Bioware's door :D

@Relic
Check out my argument for MMO subscriptions around comment 12. If this game wants to be taken seriously, it better have a fee!
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:47
Tarvu
Telling everybody to check it all day isn't going to help.
*F5*
*F5*
*F5*
*F5*
*F5*
*F5*
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 12:53
runtheplacered
I dunno.. in a way, I know I shouldn't get into the beta. Because then when the game is launched, I'll have too much know-how, if that makes sense. I'll have seen behind the scenes a bit and things won't be nice and fresh.

On the other hand, it's the only MMO I've been waiting for and god dammit, I wanna check it out and.. oh yeah, help fix bugs. Decisions, decisions.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:09
Sharpless
Any idea what the system requirements are?
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:12
runtheplacered
@ Sharpless,

The system Requirements are not going to be very hardcore. It uses the Hero Engine and judging from the screenshots, it won't be much. I'm sure bioware will want to get this onto as many computers as possible.
Magnalon's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:14
Magnalon
@Sharpless
I would assume mid-low range. Above World of Warcraft, but not much higher would be my guess.
Everyday Legend's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:17
Everyday Legend
Loved the KOTOR series.
Hate MMOs.
Sad Legend, indeed.
Midgetsnowman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:17
Midgetsnowman
@runtheplacered: i tend to feel the opposite. half the reason i'm not continuing with champions online is i can compare and contrast live and beta and i've seen a marked trend diwnward
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:22
runtheplacered
@Midgetsnowman,

You know, it's funny you mention Champions of all games. I too was in the Beta for that game. I played it and enjoyed it, but the closer and closer it got to launch, the less and less excited I became. So, I guess what I'm saying is, I can see exactly where you're coming from with that.
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:33
Im OK
*insert obligatory lamenting of the fact that this is a MehMehOh here*
Nitex's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:43
Nitex
I don't understand people that don't like MMOs. I just don't get you. The entire gaming industry has been shifting to online play because of MMOs and yet you hate? Are you that anti social or something?
Nerd Rage's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:44
Nerd Rage
It never fails to amuse me when MMO devs have to shut things down and hook up additional hardware due to "overwhelming demand." When are they going to learn that the first M stands for Massive?
funran's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 13:46
funran
man, i want to play this!
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 14:02
runtheplacered
@Everyday Legend,

I remember when this game was first announced there was a plethora of people like you that couldn't WAIT to tell people your feelings on MMO's. But, as the game has progressed your breed has diminished substantially. Now more and more people are actually willing to give the game a chance instead of just assuming you wouldn't like it, just because you don't like WoW.

MMO is a very broad term. How can you possibly hate the idea of playing with many other people online? That's like somebody coming here and saying, "OH man! I hate single player games and just NEED to let everybody know about it!"

It's silly, needless to say.
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 14:08
Ganjookie
so far the vidyos remind me of SWG (pronounced "swig")with a different art approach
20 Sided Death's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 15:25
20 Sided Death
I was a GM on SWG for a time and the only similarities I see are that they are set in the same universe. The combat looks a lot more tight and dialed in. If ever an MMO could be defined as Twitch, SWG was it. I reserve final judgement for after I play the game.

If I don't get into BETA this isn't going to be a Day One purchase for sure. I only buy MMO's after I get a trial. It doesn't matter how bad I want to play this game.
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 15:35
runtheplacered
@ 20 Sided Death,

"If I don't get into BETA this isn't going to be a Day One purchase for sure. I only buy MMO's after I get a trial. It doesn't matter how bad I want to play this game."

I'm curious as to why this is. I'm sure you have a reason, just wondering what it would possibly be. I've never heard of an MMO that doesn't give you a month of free play.. so I don't see how it's any more of a risk then any other game on the market that you don't get to try first.

Also, I don't even think Ganjookie was being serious. There's absolutely nothing about SWG that is anything like SW:TOR that I can tell. That's pretty obvious, though.
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 15:42
Ganjookie
@20 Sided Death

The combat seems familiar as a post CU game at least from the couple of trailers I saw. Of course it could be similar to most MMOS now-a-days. Of course I only really did space combat after I left game pre-CU and then came back after I got hired on.

You SWG GMs where always cool when I had to wander on over from the CS/Tech area!
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 15:59
Ganjookie
@runtheplacered

A free 30 days w/ purchase is different then a 14 day (or something close to this) trial.

I was being serious about the combat as well. The trooper just kinda sat there with his gun and used some moves. SWG was like that and you could also crouch or go prone. What did you see that was radically different?

No offense intended, it just looked similar to me. I don't know how it could be drastically different really, shooting a gun is shooting a gun, in a turn based game. If they moved it to an FPS style of course that's different or maybe a hybrid of sorts.

I'd like to play a demo or trial as well without laying down my $49.99-59.99 on it first.
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 16:31
runtheplacered
@Ganjookie,

Yes, a trial and the first 30 days being free are different, I'm not disagreeing with that. But, my question for him was.. what about it makes it anymore of a risk then buying any single player game on the market? Why be afraid to put down $50 for an MMO but you'd be totally fine with putting down $50 on day one for a single player game that may or may not suck.
Ganjookie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 17:25
Ganjookie
@runtheplacered

Gotcha. I would say that a MMO vs a single player game has the potential to have many more hours invested in it. I personally find it harder to leave an MMO for a few days than a single player, because so much can happen online, and my single player game doesn't change until I come back.. but that's me :D
WarZombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 18:26
WarZombie
Sweet, I go to sign up, only to be cockblocked by site maintenance.

FACK!
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 20:57
runtheplacered
Yeah.. it's still down. *f5* *f5* *f5*

Yep.. still down.
runtheplacered's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/29/2009 22:15
runtheplacered
It's back up. but it appears your link has changed. You can either go to the front page and navigate yourself or go to http://www.swtor.com/tester.

Good luck.
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 05:09
Tarvu
The website is being one glitchy fucker for me. Creating an account isn't happening.
Tarvu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 05:15
Tarvu
I was refused an account because I said I was from the UK.

Fuck Lucasarts.
Oozyyy's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 14:04
Oozyyy
I can't sign up just keeps bringing me back to account creation.
villainy's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/30/2009 20:25
villainy
Tried signing up in Chrome 3.0.x, FF 3.0.x, FF 3.5.x, and IE7 (first time I've actually run that thing, something about MS browsers just turns me off), looped through the whole damned account creation thing every time. Seriously if you can't manage a simple signup form what can I expect from a full on MMO? Overall I really love Bioware and/or Lucasarts games but this to be this aggravated so early is a really bad sign.
I guess I've got to thank them though, I have too many monthly fees as it is without having to worry about yet another. My thanks to the inept web "developers". The beta may end up being fun but in the long run I'd rather have car insurance, and a car, and something other than ramen for dinner..
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