During this week's TORSyndicate podcast, Stephen Reid and David Bass discussed some of the upcoming plans for Star Wars: The Old Republic. As the podcast ended, David Bass teased an upcoming guild testing program as they approach the September Beta Weekends.
Make sure to check out the entire cast with Stephen Reid and David Bass at TORSyndicate as there is much more to go around mentioned in it.
1:12:00 (Roughly): In addition to phase 2, we're also going to be starting up a guild testing program fairly soon. We're obviously continuing to expand our invites for testing and were going to start including guilds in that list. So if anyone's interested. I don't know if anyone really thinks thats something they may want to be involved in or not. I think it's more about getting an entire group of people who enjoy playing together into the game together. A lot of the time, as we've said before, guild testing invites are random, so you get some grouping up and you get people playing together, but it's nice to have an entire guild there together so they can plan out, they can be more coordinated in game which really helps us see how thats going to happen at launch when you have all those guilds in the game playing the game.
Well be contacting guild leaders I think. And then from there theyll help us organize it. Because, like Stephen said, were not going to have an official system where people can sign up or anything like that. Were mostly going to, I will be in touch with guild leaders to try and coordinate it.
Make sure to check out the entire cast with Stephen Reid and David Bass at TORSyndicate as there is much more to go around mentioned in it.
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this is the thread where they give the details about guild testing
just came up!
http://live-event.ea.com/gamescom/
we all know eachother and we all play together already, so why not have the guild ready...
I've pretty much resigned myself to not getting in till launch, but it'd be a nice surprise to be selected. Even nicer if my guildies could come play too. :)
My guild (as in the guild im in, not MY guild) is small in numbers, but as it is a guild that plays other games as well we are guaranteed to play as a group most of the time if we all get in... whereas alot of other guilds are more or less a bunch of random people that dont really know eachother...
it will be interesting to see how it turns out.
Too bad I'm currently not even signed up for any of the guilds on the website. Oh well, I guess there is still a chance I can get in as an individual.