I wonder when EA and the other US isolationist (Geo-IP Blocking anyone ?) will learn that the US and A is NOT the World
Originally Posted by ChrisCollins
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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