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Star Wars: The Old Republic News - Sign Up for Beta!
Posted by Michael Bitton on Sep 29, 2009 | 91 comments in our forums
Sign ups for the beta test of Star Wars: The Old Republic are now being taken on the official The Old Republic website!
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Would be testers will be selected from the Star Wars: The Old Republic community by use of a number of factors including, age, region, and system specifications. You must be 18 years of age to sign up and you'll need an account in good standing at the official The Old Republic website.
The test will be conducted in phases, with smaller groups initially, and an intent to expand gradually as the test goes along.
If you don't have an official The Old Republic community account you'll need to sign up for one here (and be sure to check off that you want to test the game). If you've already got an account, well what are you waiting for!? Sign up for the beta!
A Game Testing FAQ is also available for viewing here.
Awesome.
What min sys requirements do you think they will take? I have a duo core 1.8 4 gigs of ram, buy an ati raedon 1950 card :(
Awesome! waited for it, for soo long
There's no info on this currently, but I imagine they will want to include a wide range of system specifications in their test, so I wouldn't worry about it. They know the game will run on the high end systems, I imagine it's the lower end stuff that really needs to be put through the paces. Just as a disclaimer though, I don't work for BioWare (obviously) and I have no idea what their particular processes will be, I'm just speculating here.
Surprise, surprise... website seems to have crashed. Wish they had made it compatible with Firefox. Had to try and reload the site in IE.
it is compatiable with firefox. I'm using it, and had no problems.
They have said that that is part of what they are testing, to determine min system requirements. The beta signup scans ur computer, and they are looking for people from all walks and experiences. But sys reqs will be determined via beta, not before.
FYI right now the site is bouncing up and down. I suggesting waiting for a few hrs before attempting sign up to let them work out the issues they are currently having.
most beta will try and cover not just the top of the line but also work on lower end systems. The idea is that in beta they also work to hash out what will and will not work as well. In some cases might even be better to not have top of the line to get into betas as will really need to work the spectrum.
Not the site itself, the beta tester system scan portion. When I got to that, was told the browser was incompatible. Had to flip over to IE, which I never use.
Ran fine in FF3.5 for me.
Does it require a dxdiag? Because I'm at work and not on my gaming pc.
No, it actually scans the pc you use.
No they aren't using that, they are using an active file scan system from their end, java based. I know stuck at work too, luckily I can access my comp via a gateway :p
That's it, thanks. Needed to update...
No they aren't using that, they are using an active file scan system from their end, java based. I know stuck at work too, luckily I can access my comp via a gateway :p
Looks like I'll be running home for lunch. Hopefully the site is up by then. Thanks.
Looks like I'll be running home for lunch. Hopefully the site is up by then.
It's really messed up right now. It's giving my a site unavailable message, but still letting me see half the thread in a really distorted look, I can click reply, but can't type anything... so IDK they may not even realize there is a problem if some people can still get in and post.
Looks like I'll be running home for lunch. Hopefully the site is up by then.
It's really messed up right now. It's giving my a site unavailable message, but still letting me see half the thread in a really distorted look, I can click reply, but can't type anything... so IDK they may not even realize there is a problem if some people can still get in and post.
MAINTENANCE
SWTOR.com is currently unavailable while we perform scheduled maintenance. Please check back again soon!
im sure they know about it, but we all know it wasnt scheduled
Works fine for me with Firefox.
Works fine for me with Firefox.
Doesn't work on FF3.5.3 for me, but loads fine in Safari and Chrome. Either way it's down for 'maintenance' now anyway.
Just wanted to pop in and say I signed up using Firefox 3.5.3 with no issues.
Registration is closed due to some maintenance atm. I don't think signing up the first day gives you an advantage. With the millions I expect to sign it the mathematical prababilities are slim anways.
And see it in that way: when we don't get in beta, we are gonna be surprised by the story as we should when the game goes life.
That's not good for me, my 8800GTX was sent off to get a new one. It went bad and so BFG was replacing it. Right now I have a crappy 8600GT in its place. I have a dxdiag from a few weeks back but I guess it will scan with my crappy card in.
It really doesn't matter what is in your machine, to a certain degree. I'm sure they wanna test the game on older hardware to.
That's not good for me, my 8800GTX was sent off to get a new one. It went bad and so BFG was replacing it. Right now I have a crappy 8600GT in its place. I have a dxdiag from a few weeks back but I guess it will scan with my crappy card in.
Well beta isn't going to start in the next week, wait till your new card comes back before signing up. I it will probably be a good couple months before they start actual testing and the chance of getting in first round draft is slim, so just be patient and sign up when your comp is back up to full.
That said, I ran across this in their FAQ. I think this is their answer to trying to get everyone that wants to test in to testing. You test a session, and then other people test another session. This is from their FAQs:
When each testing session ends, will the chosen players be able to test again?
Our approach is to have new testers for each testing session. That said, players who give excellent feedback or find and report good bugs may be considered for additional testing sessions.
This is exciting news!!!!!
Yes, it's not the most advanced machines that are favored for any game's beta testing, but simply the widest variety of systems they can get.
Awesome, they're not allowing just any random TOR fanatic who knows nothing about beta testing in, thank God.
Hopefully I get in.
I believe for the firs phase of beta they're going to be taking the higher end machines for the simple fact that they need to make sure the game works before they start testing machine performance. System Reqs will be the last thing they rest, right around the time of stress testing (normally right before open beta).
You might not get in with the first wave, but you could get in with the second, third, or open
That's not good for me, my 8800GTX was sent off to get a new one. It went bad and so BFG was replacing it. Right now I have a crappy 8600GT in its place. I have a dxdiag from a few weeks back but I guess it will scan with my crappy card in.
You can buy my spares if you want a cheap upgrade provided you are from the uk ;)
Blagh at fixing the website <.<.
Not always true. For Warhammer, my brother got in WELL before I did...he got in when you could only play Greenskins and Dwarfs...and his system wasn't even close to mine performance wise.
They will take all kinds of people to start with...ironing out system reqs and optimizing the game early is a big thing they can do early...just look at what happened with AoC.
It seems to work in both Chrome and Firefox for me. Or at least it looks the same is in explorer, it say it is closed and that I should check back later.
Not always true. For Warhammer, my brother got in WELL before I did...he got in when you could only play Greenskins and Dwarfs...and his system wasn't even close to mine performance wise.
They will take all kinds of people to start with...ironing out system reqs and optimizing the game early is a big thing they can do early...just look at what happened with AoC.
Yeah, for a game like this, I expect a set amount of a certain range of specs. So they might take 1000 low end, 2000 medium, 3000 high end, or something like that.
reg site is down still.
lol been down since this mornin awesome
It'll "be back up in the next few hours." ... sure... It'll prob be down all night. ROFL, just that much demand.
That's what she said.
"We are making adjustments to the site due to the overwhelming response to the testing announcement."
It's back up, folks.
STAMPEDE!!!!!!!!!!!
Sign up just went very smoothly for me. *crosses fingers* sure hope I get to test this game!
Thinks this will be the first MMO in a long time that i wont sign up for beta : (
And...its back down.
lol up at 4:05? Down at 4:15, right as I got to scan my computer. Epic!
Good. One more spot for the rest of us non SWG-whiners...
Awesome, one less person to compete against :P.
im joing :)!!
Server crashed.
You're such a rebel, you go with your bad self...
Ok... The next time the site is back up Every one wait 30 minutes till I've submitted my form... Muhahaha ;)
Oh man, I was 3/4 through the signup process when it went down again... I could refresh the main signup screen long enough to see that my username is now taken by my ghost signup..... grrrr.
It's been down all darned day. I just found out about this about like.. at 1PM my time. I'd say it's a lost cause, considering the bandwidth and the number of hits the site is getting at once with EVERYONE who wants a piece of this.. It's chaotic. I'm kinda thinking they shouldn't have released it to the public, but if they didn't we wouldn't be here talking about it. XD
But I'm sure they're most likely trying to fix the bandwidth problem on the site, but each time they get it up MORE people flood at once. There's no way to regulate how many people come and go at once. I want in this, my friends want in this, their friends. It's insane.
We all want a piece of the sweet, delicate, heavenly <insert favorite dessert here> that will be KotR. And only a few of us truly will get a piece of it before it's release. We just want to be that one guy, you know? That one person who gets in while everyone else doesn't. It's our duty as gaming nerds to get into beta testing for one of the most anticipated MMOs that's going on the market since WoW. So we can say "I was there."
It may be days, weeks, even months before we'll be able to get into this and it actually works. But we still need to understand that not all of us will get in. And accept that, we'll just wait for the release and pretty much splurge every single penny we earn to play it...
Ah the interwebs.
At least you got in. i have been trying all day with no success.
*sniffles* half hour ago I got to a screen where I needed to accept an agreement, and when I accepted it went to the maintenance page.
*edit* Ok how long is the "Scanning In Progress" bar supposed to be on the screen?
*edit* When I get the scan your system page, it gives a warning to install something, and when I click to install it, it refreshes the page which takes awhile, but then instead of installing something, it gives a popup box about windows installer or something and gives details inside it about different options like slash commands and stuff, and then a button to close it at the bottom... I click to scan, and it just sits there and acts like it's scanning, but I think is doing nothing. It's been "scanning" for over an hour. lol
..I'm sorry to say, but, I got through. EVERYTHING. I hope you others get through though! Good luck!
I almost complete :D site is really slow...
I got mine completed finally. I got to the computer scan part and then i had to go raid, came back just a few minutes ago and finished it up. The site is still getting hammered though and is super slow...
well one good thing is it isnt based on first come first beta key. They keys will be giving out im sure at random to various computer types and locations.
Ill wait till tomorrow.
Anyone know what you are supposed to do after the scan?
The scan pops up my system specs and just sits there. Is that the end?
Did I get all the way through?
Is there something that I'm missing?
Press tab to go to the botom then click submit
Anyone else having problems just loging into the TOR site? I signed up for an account and tried to sign in using the form at the top of the page, but it just resets the page and says "Login failed".
I creat an acount and everytime i try to continue with the part where i sign up for the beta i get kicked back to the form to create an acount again. It isn't saving my acount name or anything i do. Guess I will have to try tomorrow when i wake up.
Ok, it seems to not want me to sign up... I check the agree box on first page.... fill out info on second page, and when I click submit it brings me back to the first page saying I must agree to the terms...wtf?
Ok I finally figured it out. It seems the system scan will not work correctly if you are using Windows XP 64 bit edition. I restarted my computer and logged in with regular Windows XP and went through the installer and it worked instantly! I wasted my whole evening and night on this just to finally figure this out!
I have an account but when I click "continue" on Detailed Information iI got kicked back to Terms and Conditions page.
Scan is frozen on my Vista 64bit as well.
It worked fine on my pc and Im using Vista Ultimate x64 :-P
I just get this on the next page
•warning: array_shift() [function.array-shift]: The argument should be an array in /opt/vhost/swtor.com/sites/all/modules/custom/cohort/cohort.signup.inc on line 490.
•warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, '' was given in /opt/vhost/swtor.com/includes/form.inc on line 366.
Wow I finally got the site to accept my info. I had to go thru the process like 5 times before it finally accepted my info. I hope it was worth it.
After trying during 24 hours, I finally succeeded in only create an account. Unfortunately the process to enter the beta crash after inserting my personal info. I'm unable to get the page to retrieve my system info.
bah, spam from wyaanng0, lets get him permabanned so he'll stop posting that message everywhere
won't work for me either.. get stuck on system scan
Bioware is not off to a good start with me! First the site was down just about all day on the first day of the announcement for tester sign-ups, which they should have been prepared for a large overwhelming response. Second, I finally get to the sign-up page and I'm getting the same problem some others are getting. I click "continue" after filling out all my info, and I get kicked back to the "terms and agreement" page...which I checked the box to agree with every time! If it's this hard to just sign-up for the possibility to test, how bad will it be when people get accepted and try to download the game? I don't think I should have to go through a system reconfiguring just to sign up...maybe for actual testing, but not signing up. So if that's what it takes, I guess I'll sit this one out. Good luck to all those who signed up successfully, I hope you get accepted!
You guys act like this will be the only time you get to sign up, that sign up will probably be there for a few months.
Just an FYI, I had the scan part that kept hanging up on me , no mateer what I did. I happened upon a post about internet explorer 8, which I have, I switched to compatability mode, restarted IE, and the scan worked fine and now it is successfully completed. Hope this helps someone
I love Bioware but ithink they just got a big rude awakening and slap in the face, and ego buster, if you will and any other cliches I can think of.
Entering the MMO space was not as easy as they assumed I an guessing. I am hoping they learn from this experience and do better going forward.
Nope. I guess it was just luck for you. Oh well... I am stuck in the endless "agree to terms" too.
its worse then that, it will lock out your display name and kick you back to the start. I've lost 2 username options already.
I was finally able to sign up! I was having the same problems every one else was reporting.
It seemed to me that, even though it says only certain fields are required, it let me proceed when I entered something in EVERY field. This includes Address 2 and additional phone. One note though, it did make me do the system scan twice for some reason. The second time it accepted it though.
Anyway, this is how I got signed up. Good luck to everyone else!
Marcus
Nope. Doesn't work either.
My guess it, it has nothing to do with changes of setting or procedures whatsoever.
First it didn't worked for me, just get stucked with accept terms every time.
But I clicked on "My Account" management and scrolled down. There is a button called Update. (Next to System Specs and above Contact Information) I pressed the button (in IE Compatability mode) and yeah it worked for me!
Hope that this will help someone else.
I can't get their stupid beta sign-up form to work in either IE 8 or Firefox....
Even after turning on Compatibility mode in IE 8 and still doesn't work.... fun fun... lol
This is exactly what happens to me.
Perhaps a little melodramatic here, but if they can't even get a simple web form to work it doesn't inspire too much faith I'm sorry to say.
*edit* I just got this in my email 4 times;
Your account on the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ website has been successfully updated! If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact a member of the Community Team.
May the Force be with you,
The Star Wars: The Old Republic Team
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There was no talk of a system scan or whatever.... Very odd. My account hasn't been updated at all according to the "My Account" page.
First it didn't worked for me, just get stucked with accept terms every time.
But I clicked on "My Account" management and scrolled down. There is a button called Update. (Next to System Specs and above Contact Information) I pressed the button (in IE Compatability mode) and yeah it worked for me!
Hope that this will help someone else.
Ok that worked. Hurm.
Hey folks, I encountered two of the problems listed above and fixed them both:
If you're stuck in the endless loop of accepting the terms and entering personal information, your cookies aren't lasting. I went into Firefox's settings and changed the "keep cookies until" option from "they expire" to "I close Firefox." That fixed it. The website, for some reason, sets your cookies to expire after like five minutes.
As for the scan, I could not for the life of me get it to work in Firefox, but IE does it just fine. I think. It's still going and it's been ten minutes. :)
Kind of funny everyone getting excited about a beta that is probably months if not longer in the future. This game won't be out before late 2010, if not later. I hope they don't rush it.
Well if this sign up is any sign of how the beta and release will go all I can say is let the crying begin LOL
I guess this is almost BioWare watching to see how the signup goes. There are so many whiners blaming the game on the site failures and the hassle to actually sign-up. And yet it's the whiners BioWare DOESN'T want. This beta is GOING to have nasty bugs that need reporting and a bunch of trouble with signing in, ect. Like the GameGuard bug with the Aion open beta. Patience is going to be key. Testers need to critic the game fairly, and not be retarded and cry cause it isn't like WoW or something else. That's what I saw in the Aion pre-selection. I can only hope the whiners from SWG don't cause too much of a commotion when they discover that SWTOR is NOT SWG's twin. This guy I know is constantly freaking over the fact that SWTOR isn't going to be like SWG or make up for the changes that occured in 2003(?). Regardless, I'm so excited for this game and you can bet I'm pre-ordering this thing the SECOND it's available for pre-order!
Just a little update, I woke up just now and found 38 emails saying my account had been updated... Oh and guess what, it hasn't!
i had to agre enot to sign up for the beta to register, once register then i could try and agree for the beta...wish me luck system scan is next
I hope I get picked I have been waiting for a ood star wars MMO since SOE ruined Star wars galaxies! :)