photo of SWTOR booth 914 at PaxPrime 2011 courtesy of @rockjaw
If you are a current follower of the game Star Wars The Old Republic MMO currently in development by Bioware, then you already know about them bringing the SWTOR love to PaxPrime 2011 in Seattle Washington, August 26th through the 28th. If not then read on because you need to know this info!
I had what I thought was an interesting thought the other day. I had a topic cross my mind and thought it would make an interesting discussion topic.
What sex characters do you normally play in your MMO’s, male or female?
Sitting here last night playing the beta of the Neverwinter heroes facebook game, I happened to do my nightly stroll across the swtor.com web page on crew skills before I went to bed, just to check on my pretties you understand, when I saw that the rest of the blanks had been filled in. I have been waiting for this day and still it took me by surprise.
Lets Meet and Greet!
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Hopefully your guild has one of these to guide you into SWTOR Beta!
Here is what David Bass had to say on the subject:
(1:12:00 into the podcast) In addition to phase 2, we’re also going to be starting up a guild testing program. We’re obviously continuing to expand out invites for testing and we’re going to start including guilds in that list. So if anyone is interested, I don’t know if that is something people would be involved in or not. It’s more about trying to get an entire group of people who enjoy playing together into the game together. As we’ve said before, guild testing invites are random and so you get some people grouping up and playing together but it’s nice to have an entire guild there playing together so they can plan out…they can be more coordinated in-game which really helps us see how that is going to happen at launch when you have all of those guilds in the game, playing the game.
So hopefully you are already part of and in a established guild for SWTOR. If so you might just be getting guild testing invites soon!
Watch those email boxes and pester your guild leaders cause it’s coming.
🙂
UPDATE: Shortly after making this post “Doctordake” AKA David Bass had this to say on twitter,
doctordakeDavid Bass
Yes, #swtor Guild Testing has started. We’ll make a post soon with all the details. Please do not contact any of us with invite requests 🙂
We are very pleased to announce the start of Guild Testing for STAR WARS: The Old Republic! This program will allow guilds to be considered as a whole for inclusion in the Game Testing Program, allowing us to gather important data regarding how guilds play The Old Republic, as well as how organized groups deal with various mechanics and systems in the game. The program is already underway, as we’ve invited the first wave of guilds into testing, however we’ll be adding more over the coming weeks alongside the general Game Testing invites.
How do I sign my guild up for Guild Testing?
All you need to do in order to have your guild considered for Guild Testing is to have an active guild with at least 10 members registered in our Guild Headquarters. We also recommend creating a recruitment thread on our forums, but please make sure you are following the Recruitment Guidelines we’ve set forward. Guilds that spam recruitment messages after multiple warnings, for example, will not be considered for Guild Testing.
How are guilds selected for Guild Testing?
In general, guild testing is done randomly from all eligible guilds (that is, those with at least 10 registered members in the Guild Headquarters). Throughout the program, we will be looking to let in both large and small guilds, so as long as your guild meets the minimum requirement, you have an equal chance of being invited to testing. In addition, we may, at our discretion, choose a few select guilds that are active and helpful in the community, since we could use that sort of helpfulness in-game and on the Testing Forums. Note that this will be done in rare circumstances, in order to reward our dedicated community members. Please do not contact any BioWare staff requesting access to Guild Testing, or else your guild may be removed from consideration.
How do I know if my guild has been selected for Guild Testing?
Guild leaders will be contacted directly with detailed instructions when their guild gets selected for testing. It’ll be their job to pass the appropriate information to the rest of their guild in order for everyone to be sent testing invites.
What is involved in Guild Testing?
Guild Testing works the same way as Game Testing does, however by being invited as a guild, you gain the advantage of being in the same testing group and being on the same server, allowing for more coordination amongst the guild for testing group content. You’ll still be a part of the general Game Testing population as well, and will have access to the general testing forums as everyone else does.
Are European guilds eligible for Guild Testing?
European Guild Testing will begin at the same time the European Testing Program begins in the near future.
If you have any other questions about the program, feel free to post in this thread or email us at guilds@swtor.com. Again, please do not contact us asking for Guild Testing consideration or your guild may not be considered for testing.
Crafting. Yes crafting. The all elusive, god forbid, sucks to level, identical item, farm your ass off, kill a ni-hao slinging bot for a node, shoot your best friend in the face for a plot on dantooine… crafting. I will admit it. I was a crafter. Yes. the man you look at today, whom rated a whopping 4 in the wow arena system, the lord of murder, Flagg, the god of pvp carnage and utter destruction was a crafter. All jokes aside, In SWG. I loved that shit. LOVED it. Lived for it. Hell, I’ll admit it. I sold gold (credits) to websites, that resold my gold. I sold so much of it, i lived on it for 2 years….. no joke. 2200.00 a month. It was heaven. Then it all changed… wait…what the fuck am i babbling on about now…. Oh the glory days. Back to it then… Crafting.
I really want to get back to it. I want an inquisitor for leveling (my full video on ustream thingy) but for gods sake, I want to grind and level a jedi knight crafter. A “Force Architect”(@flagg20011-2099). if you will. The crystal making , lightsaber wielding mofo. The man with the plan. Or whatever.
The thing is, after reading a few 1/2 assed reviews on the crafting, then reading one post beta guy.. Shit, I cant wait. He ranted and raved about it, being a crafter from swg himself. Good god that’s tough optimism to try to break. He went on about how engaging it was, how wonderful it was to craft sex droids, how exciting it was to kill jawas and use their soul to fuel his deadly machine based one demons from….oh wait, wrong game. The point is he loved it. And I’ll be honest here. I know a lot of people who talk out of school and said the same. The crafting system is fun as hell, unique, and phenomenal.
You know how hard it is to find a game with good engaging crafting? How utterly mindbogglingly hard? Impossible is the proper term. It’s so bad it almost seems as if these days most companies throw it in as some sore-ass abused after-though of some overworked department full of burnouts. Not so here, I hope. How do you guys feel? This week is my monthly questionnaire, first (and most likely only month) to do this before Derek and Serge shut me down like cancer in a radiation lab.
Q: Are you excited about crafting? If so, give 3 reasons. If not, Post a link to a picture of a cool jawa.
Q: Have you ever thought about drawing or animating a sexy alien chick. Even after a drug fueled binge of “heavy metal” and peyote? if not, please tell us your favorite color, and a 300 word essay on what makes that color whup monkey-ass.
Q: Is time travel possible. Seriously. I want to know.
Q:Do you play “World of Tanks” and when you kill a tank do you yell ” You underestimate the power of the dark side!” IF not, explain why you like 90210 in less than 7 words.
Q: Ever get in an argument over your Halloween costume…after you turned 20?
Q: Is the only reason you like Harrison Ford at all: A: HAN SOLO / B: INDIANA JONES ?
Q: Is there a way to travel faster than light? Think, tachyon…
Q: Do you love swtor?
I eagerly await your ramblings!
/Flagg/
P.S. Notice the sarcasm and fucking lack of fucking cussing i did in the fucking article. Wo-fucking-rd to your mothers uncle.
/Flagg/
Love you all. Seriously….
/Flagg.
Here comes the money!
So do you want a Light or Darkside blaster?
From a recent article on Darth Hater by Raiden entitled “Morality Gear” and a conversation with my friend Zlatto from AskAJedi I am perplexed by this question.
Just what does morality gear restrictions mean to the crafter in SWTOR?
Erika Christine from Bioware just announced on the BiowareCommunityChannel a cosplay costume contest starting now to celebrate Bioware being at Gamescom 2011 this year!
This video has all the details and it sounds like a real hoot! I can not wait to see what the community comes up with for this. If you remember the recent San Diego Comic Con you may have seen some of the footage of all the awesome cosplay costumes that came out in full force for this event. Hopefully this contest will bring out some of those along with new costumes never before seen.
The details of the contest include…..
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According to Cebo in his thread on the official forums for Star Wars the Old Republic MMO, Gamestar Magazine had an exclusive interview with Gabe Amatangelo from Bioware regarding “operations” (Bioware’s term for raiding in it’s MMO) . He talked about different sizes of operations, plus he also revealed that there would be adjustable difficulty levels for you and you group.
