newsfeed: E3 2011: No Open Beta Planned

[News]

During an impromptu interview during GameSpot’s “LiveCam” tour of E3, Daniel Erickson Lead Writer for SWTOR, confirmed that an open beta is not very likely. Erickson also mentioned that if there were going to be a closed beta it would be very close to the release date of the game. Jump to 1:24 to hear [...]

 

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[Darth Avlectus]

Ah yes. Only the privileged. I'm just so surprised.

[Nedak]

And yet another mistake.

[Hallucination]

They must be pretty confident in their network engineers to skip the chance to do a stress test. Or dumb. Or maybe the lead writer isn't the right person to manage the technical affairs.

[Tommycat]

I think by "Open Beta" they mean let everyone and their brother in. They have over a million beta applications. They already have a closed beta(of sorts) going on right now... Sooo they could open the beta up to 1/10th of the applications and get a feel for how a typical day would be... Then on launch day(just like every other MMO out there) the server will be crying like a little girl as everyone and their brother logs in for the first time.

[JediAthos]

I think by "Open Beta" they mean let everyone and their brother in. They have over a million beta applications. They already have a closed beta(of sorts) going on right now... Sooo they could open the beta up to 1/10th of the applications and get a feel for how a typical day would be... Then on launch day(just like every other MMO out there) the server will be crying like a little girl as everyone and their brother logs in for the first time.

 

^ This! I don't know that they need to have a true "open" beta to conduct a stress test on their servers. As Tommycat pointed out that have more than enough beta applications that they can use the people who applied to test their servers at max capacity for as long as they need/want to.