# Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta Signups are open **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 30, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078 "2009-09-30T05:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/1 "2009-09-30T05:21:33Z")
I’ve seen minor buzz around here, so for anyone interested but not following the game obsessively enough to catch updates as they happen they just opened up the signup page tonight. You need a community account on [swtor.com](http://swtor.com) to sign up, but other than that it’s just filling out the standard licence agreement/whatever forms. Honestly, I doubt it’s first come, first served so it may serve you best to just wait a day or two. The servers are timing out like mad right now, good luck actually getting through all three signup steps without being sent back to the ToA page. Either way, just though people may want to know, we can turn this into a hype thread/discussion or whatever. Linky: [Game Testing | Star Wars: The Old Republic](http://swtor.com/tester) ETA: BTW, you have to use Firefox 3.0+ or IE7+ to use the computer specs submit tool, I just tried on Chrome because FF was bugging out on the site and it yelled at me. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/2 "2009-09-30T10:10:51Z")
Rasserfrazzer forgot the password to my account and it won’t let me reset! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/3 "2009-09-30T14:19:17Z")
Anyone know if this is going to be a mac game? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/4 "2009-09-30T21:14:12Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Anyone know if this is going to be a mac game? Windows only so far. ---
**Author:** ![Rin\_Twisted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Rin\_Twisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rin_Twisted)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/5 "2009-09-30T22:26:28Z")
Right now, there’s a message up on the site: > [@](#): > > Thank you for visiting [www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com](http://www.StarWarsTheOldRepublic.com). We are making adjustments to the site due to the overwhelming response to the testing announcement. Please be patient and check back later. We estimate that the site will be back up in the next few hours. Blerg. I think that would be quite cool to do. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/6 "2009-10-01T01:16:26Z")
> [@Rin\_Twisted](#): > > Right now, there’s a message up on the site: > > Blerg. I think that would be quite cool to do. Yeah they got… stormed, that was also up it when I tried to log on yesterday out of boredom (that’s how I found out), they must have had another spike and decided they needed to fix it even more. I should clarify the thread title a tad, it’s focus testing moreso than an actual closed Beta. You probably won’t be able to do “anything with minor restraints and focus weekends” like most betas, the way the FAQ sounds it’s going to be more like “congrats, you’ve been selected to test level 15-20 PvP for the force using classes this weekend” than what most people think of for beta testing. Either way, it should still be pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-signups-are-open/512078/7 "2009-10-07T17:44:34Z")
Inside information (aka I asked someone whose relative works there) is that the announcement is kind of an oopsie. They’re really not ready for even a closed beta yet, far as I hear.