omg I'm soooo glad I read this I never got an email about rsvping so I went and checked and they were waiting for me to rsvp. phew downloading now
Crud now it looks like I won't be in the first wave since I didn't get the original email invite.

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I do expect this to be a grand year for the genre though. :)

Hard to complain... Depending on your point of view, this is either the best, or worst time, to be a gamer. So many fantastic games have been released in such a short amount of time: from Batman (so far the best of the ones I've gotten so far, in my opinion), Saint's Row, and Assassin's Creed, to Battlefield, Modern Warfare, Skyrim, SW: TOR, Diablo 3, Starcraft: Heart of the Swarm, Mass Effect 3, not to mention the two you brought up... it'll be a great 18-24 months if you've got deep pockets (or are willing to commit a large portion of your entertainment budget to your gaming addiction like Mike and I).

Whoops I forgot to RSVP my invite. Guess that means I won't get in until the last 'wave' on Sunday so I think I'm just going to wait it out until release. Played a lil bit of beta already so no biggie. I'll let Skyrim suck more of my life away, before TOR does the same thing lol. Have fun everyone!!

I am looking forward to The Old Republic, but have to admit that I'm not "blown away" by it. There are just some... to be polite I'll say "questionable"... design mechanics that, in my own opinion, will relegate The Old Republic as the pinnacle refinement and swan song of the last generation of MMO design instead of the dawn of a bold new era in MMO gaming.

If it weren't for the promise of BioWare's signature care to story, I'll be completely honest, I'd probably pass up SW:TOR because it's just a lot of the same-old, same-old. When MikeyNY told me about the "Legacy" system and the implementation of the "last name" as a server-wide last name, all I could think was, "Really?! What is this, Everquest?! This is utterly stupid."

For those of you who don't know, way back in the day, Ultima Online had the flexibility to create a proper name for your character (e.g. John Doe). When EQ released, they couldn't handle spaces in the name, and you had to achieve level 15 (an several-month-long process) to "earn" a surname that was displayed like a title.

I don't recall Luke having to become a Jedi Master before he became a Skywalker. I know this particular feature is such a minor detail, but to me it's indicative of an "old school" mindset that just saturates nearly all mechanics of the game.

If they were focused more on grafting an MMO onto Star Wars, there should have been an effort made so that we could make the next "Boba Fett" or "Han Solo" or "Qui Gon Jin." Instead, to me, it seems like they tried to graft Star Wars onto an MMO so you're going to wind up with a million "it3rw3bzNam3s".

I came up with the monniker "Dakon Kor" for my Commando character because it seemed so perfect in the Star Wars universe. Instead it's looking like I'll be stuck with "Kor" the Commando and "Dakon" the Smuggler. It just feels like something is missing.

Sorry... I'll get off my soap box.

I guess my point is this... I'm really looking forward to digging deeply into another series of BioWare stories in SW:TOR. I just wish it had a better underlying system than it does right now. You can bet I'll be playing when it releases,(and expect that I'll be putting in the better part of 15-20 hours a week), I'm just not chomping at the bit to play like I was with recent games like Assassin's Creed, Saints Row and am for upcoming games like Mass Effect 3 and Guild Wars 2.

Your going to love TOR - its awesome!

Yes we can talk about it now hehe.

It is A W S O M E! :lol:

1 for today Brian MacNamara (11-21).

Got my invite. Downloading the client now! Woohoo! Same server would be awesone guys.

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I'd recommend that when the servers open for weekend testers, people should come to this thread. As soon as someone creates a toon, be sure to post here with relevant details and other interested folks can follow suit. Does that work?

Works for me.

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To Nniicc and Halish,

I'm an aussie who preordered CE and i didnt get a beta code for this coming weekend either. I just realised (thanks to another site,) you have to rsvp on swtor.com/tester first.

I did that, and thats how I got the download link for the launcher.

Sidenote, i was having trouble logging into the launcher until i provided all the answers to security questions on my account.

Hope that helps :)

I'm not talking about the beta invite. I received that mail. The game is currently downloading. I was talking about the give away beta keys.

Recently, Google+ opened up Pages for organizations and I've set up one for Stonewall Fleet as soon as I could.

If you're a Google+ user, then be sure to add Stonewall Fleet to one of your Circles!

Be sure to comment, post, and upload photos!

It's great that you guys have discussed this. Because this is worrying me. I didn't join up with you guys to end up in a guild with only 13 members (no offence, I'm sure those 12 other people are all wonderful).

I know that lag won't be an issue, I play LOTRO, which moved all the servers to the US.

I assume that maintenance will be done on a weekday morning. That means midday in Europe. Should be finished by the time I get home in the evening.

I joined the EU LoS guild. At the moment I'm in doubt if I will start my first toon on the EU or on the US server. I wonder how many people in the KoS/LoS US guild are European. There must be Europeans in there who decided to play on the US servers.

The only reason I can think of to play on an EU server is lack of people online on weekday evenings and weekend mornings. I'm not talking about fellow guild members. In an MMORPG I like it when there are a lot of random players around, to ease the grind and to have a general feeling of being in a mass multiplayer game.

A this time I would prefer it if we're all one happy family on a US server. If it doesn't work out, we can still separate (no relationship last forever).

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IE :)

Of course another solution is for you to switch to Chrome. :)

IE :evil:

It's readable in firefox. Only problem is have with the forum is that when i refresh on tabs don't refresh for half a minute.

Hummmm, I am pre-registered since July and I have not received a weekend stress test invite, I wonder if they are staggering those out via email. Hope so, I want to test again and yes I am down on the idea of all being on the same server, I would love to test grouping


Woops, spoke too soon, just got my invite and RSVD'd already :) yay!

Will the weekend stress testers have access to the same servers as you regular testers?

Obviously i want to play with you guys. Preferably on the same side. Are you guys mostly playing republic or empire?

Someone name the server and my Jedi Knight is down with the idea.

Episode 442 - Deep Space Nine - "Once More Unto the Breach" - 11/11/1998

http://www.allstepisodes.com/megvid.php?n=3707

Worf finds a battle assignment for Kor, an aging Klingon hero.

Enjoy!

I"m up for going to the same server :)

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umm I'm not sure why but the right parts of your post I can't read the ends of sentences

I'm not seeing the issue. What browser are you using?

IE :)

Get more people to vote:)

I'm SO down to get on the same server for this weekend! I too had issues with the queue for Leviathan so I played on some other server. But I too would love the chance to play some KOS folks in beta.

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Good idea, Van. I wouldn't worry about recalling the servers from last beta weekend though. Other than the ongoing ones (e.g., Leviathan), the others seem to change.

BTW -- during the last weekend, I only had a queue for Leviathan on the first evening. It wasn't bad for the rest of the weekend.

That's good to know about the server, I didn't try it after the first nite. Now to figure out which class to play...hmmm...