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Two ingenious forum goers by the names of Ianril and Zechio discovered a little IP that then became launch.swtor.com. Originally Ianril discovered an IP address 159.153.229.171 that appeared to come from EA after doing a ARIN search. After a couple minutes of investigating Zechio found that the security certificate referenced launch.swtor.com as an address.
At this point the community is trying to figure out what this all means. A few members of the community reported seeing this after logging in:
Along with the quotes from our recent interviews, this might suggest testing might be starting:
Daniel Erickson: Absolutely. One of the most rewarding things is, even as people are beginning to test and play, as you go through one class, and you start talking to your friends who are going through another class, or you start going through another class... you are going to start putting things together in ways that you never would have when you just did the one class. You're going to start to get a larger picture of the whole story and what's actually happening in the galaxy.
"Ord Mantell is not a happy place," Jake Neri explained. "There is conflict there, but it is also an early world. One of the goals there is 'Hey, people that haven't played an MMO need to be successful there.' So we are constantly balancing those planets. I don't know if you guys were aware, but those planets are getting a lot of iteration. We did open up and start to do some testing. We are doing small groups, we are looking to expand that in the near future, and those origin planets are really a focus. We really want to make sure that they are good so we can extend into the larger game as we go."
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Posted 3/25/2010 8:36:19 PM- View User Profile
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Posted 3/25/2010 8:18:10 PMSeanDahlburg = You have indeed found the login portal for Game Testing. That said, this is not a new page and we are not ready to make any additional announcements about our Game Testing Program. When we are ready, we will make sure The Old Republic Community is the first to know!
If you havent signed up yet to be a tester or wish to learn more, access our [URL="http://www.swtor.com/tester"]Game Testing Portal[/URL]
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Posted 3/25/2010 8:16:20 PM"You have indeed found the login portal for Game Testing. That said, this is not a new page and we are not ready to make any additional announcements about our Game Testing Program. When we are ready, we will make sure The Old Republic Community is the first to know!
If you havent signed up yet to be a tester or wish to learn more, access our Game Testing Portal. "
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Posted 3/25/2010 6:47:05 PMThe address itself has been around for atleast a few weeks, but the actual content only showed up yesterday.
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Posted 3/25/2010 8:36:25 AMI haven't read about this here and I wonder why, since this could be linked to a possible start of testing. To be honest, I rather think the timer has something to do with either Dragon Age or Mass Effect, but speculating is always nice :)