STAR WARS — THE OLD REPUBLIC: Europa-Beta verschoben

Be­reits zum letz­ten Wo­chen­ende soll­ten euch eu­ro­päi­sche Spie­ler zum Be­ta­test von STAR WARS — THE OLD RE­PU­BLIC frei­ge­schal­tet wer­den. Dar­aus wurde je­doch nichts. Wa­rum das so war, er­fährt man nun von Bio­Ware, die da­mit eine deut­lich bes­sere In­for­ma­ti­ons­po­li­tik fah­ren, als bei­spiels­weise Fun­com.

Of­fen­bar ist man beim Ent­wick­ler kurz da­vor, eine neue Ver­sion des Cli­ents zur Ver­fü­gung zu stel­len (das soll noch im Laufe die­ser Wo­che ge­sche­hen), die dazu führt, dass man die­sen kom­plett neu in­stal­lie­ren muss. Der alte wie der neue Cli­ent kom­men mit sat­ten 27 Gi­ga­byte Down­load da­her und man sah kei­nen Sinn darin, dass die Be­ta­tes­ter diese in­ner­halb kür­zes­ter Zeit zwei­mal her­un­ter la­den müs­sen. In mei­nen Au­gen eine nach­voll­zieh­bare Ent­schei­dung. Nicht nach­voll­zieh­bar ist al­ler­dings in mei­nen Au­gen, dass man kei­nen neuen Ter­min nennt.

Zum ers­ten Mal sol­len mit dem neuen Build auch lo­ka­li­sierte Cli­ents in Deutsch und Fran­zö­sisch be­reit ge­stellt wer­den, das dürfte eben­falls ein wich­ti­ger Grund für die Ver­zö­ge­rung ge­we­sen sein, auch hier ist nach­voll­zieh­bar, dass man lie­ber diese Ver­sio­nen tes­ten möchte und des­we­gen war­tet bis sie fer­tig sind.

Die voll­stän­dige Mit­tei­lung aus den of­fi­zi­el­len Fo­ren hin­ter »wei­ter le­sen«.

As pro­mi­sed, we have an up­date on the batch of Game Tes­ting in­vi­tes being sent to play­ers in the EU.

Af­ter a lengthy dis­cus­sion here at the Bio­Ware of­fices, the de­ci­sion has been made to post­pone the pro­po­sed Game Tes­ting in­vi­tes for EU play­ers for a num­ber of re­a­sons.

Firstly, there’s a new build of the game on the ho­ri­zon. This is a ma­jor build, mea­ning there will be cha­rac­ter wi­pes and a new cli­ent to down­load. As you may be aware, the cur­rent cli­ent down­load is around 27GB in size. If we were to in­vite play­ers en masse to­day, those play­ers would have to down­load the ent­i­rety of the cli­ent to ac­cess the game. There’s every chance that la­ter this week, the ser­vice will go off­line and this new ver­sion will be rol­led out, mea­ning ever­yone cur­rently in Tes­ting will have to not only down­load the ent­ire cli­ent again (ano­ther 27GB down­load), but will also have their cha­rac­ters era­sed and have to start af­resh. This is a re­la­tively large amount to down­load in such a short space of time and not an ex­pe­ri­ence we want new tes­ters to be ex­po­sed to.

Se­condly, this new build will bring about the first lo­ca­li­sed ver­si­ons of Star Wars: The Old Re­pu­blic, which means those of you that speak French and Ger­man will have the chance to play the game in those lan­gua­ges, for the first time ever. We’re ex­tre­mely ex­ci­ted to be able to of­fer this to our play­ers and as such, we’re keen to get a lot of feed­back from Eu­ro­pean tes­ters in par­ti­cu­lar.

For those of you that may have mis­sed the mes­sa­ges we put out on the sub­ject al­re­ady, last week saw a num­ber of is­sues arise with key sys­tems that preven­ted us from sen­ding out in­vi­tes to EU play­ers. Had ever­y­thing gone to plan, we would have been able to of­fer two weeks of tes­ting time to new users. Howe­ver, gi­ven the is­sues that arose, this was phy­si­cally not pos­si­ble.

So while we un­der­stand that this news may not be what a lot of you wan­ted to hear to­day, we hope that you’ll un­der­stand our po­si­tion. Gi­ven the news of this new build, it’s now more im­port­ant than ever that we in­vite Eu­ro­pean play­ers into the Game Tes­ting en­viron­ments, so you have my word that this batch of in­vi­tes will hap­pen, it may just mean you just have to wait a little lon­ger.

It’s also im­port­ant to re­mem­ber this is just the be­gin­ning. In the fu­ture, we’ll be in­vit­ing more and more tes­ters to the EU Game Tes­ting en­viron­ments as well as fu­ture Game Tes­ting wee­kends. So even if you’re not in­vi­ted to this next round of tes­ting, there will still be ple­nty of chan­ces to get in­vol­ved.

As ever, as soon as I get any firm news around the mat­ter, I’ll make sure to up­date ever­yone.

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