Take a deep breath, everyone…(Source)
Game Testing is currently ongoing for Star Wars: The Old Republic. This isn’t news – it’s been ongoing for quite a while. At different points in the process, we have invited a number of people to test. Some of those people tested for short periods, some for longer periods.
We’ve recently transitioned into longer-term and larger-scale testing. We have more people testing the game now than ever before. We are allowing them to play for longer than ever before. We’re also continuing to invite people to test, so if you haven’t signed up for testing yet – now is a good time.
We will be allowing more and more people to test The Old Republic before launch, and that means occasionally we’ll spike in our invite numbers. It doesn’t mean everyone who’s signed up for testing is going to be invited in one block.
What we’re doing now, essentially, is similar to a ‘Closed Beta’ for other MMORPGs, but we call it Game Testing. It’s invite-only, and it’s limited in size. That gives us the most ‘bang for our buck’ in terms of getting meaningful, actionable feedback. However, we’re still ramping up, we’re getting more people in… and we’re still aiming to launch in 2011.
High end beta testing? Does this mean stress tests to see what the servers can handle? Does this mean they'll be testing class balance for end game PvP (yeah right). It'd be nice for these betas to focus on the end game and making the game balance before release.
There seems to be a trend with MMO's that they don't learn from the history of past failed games. They always make the same mistakes. Too much instanced PvP and PvE and not enough open world content. The end game always seems to be lacking and your only choice is re-roll more characters in the hopes they'll have the end game fixed by the time you level up your newbie character.
It would be nice to play a game that I know the time invested to make it to the top level will be worth it and not a huge disappointment after spending all those hours leveling up and gearing out.
So most likely these betas will just be a test for them to see if they can pack those millions of new subs on release date to maximize the profits for the first few months before people start to lose interest and luster of a fresh new MMO wears off.
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