{"id":227,"date":"2011-11-11T23:33:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T06:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=227"},"modified":"2011-11-11T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T06:33:39","slug":"tor-friday-update-1111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"TOR:  Friday Update 11\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Skyrim busting update today&#8230;we got all kinds of good stuff!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new Beta weekend started (Invites started going out Weds, I believe).<\/p>\n<p>EU invites (general testing, not weekend) went out.. for the EU servers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We got a blurb about TOR making it&#8217;s appearance at DreamHack:<\/p>\n<p>Held each year at the Elmia Fair in J\u00c3\u00b6nk\u00c3\u00b6ping, Sweden, DreamHack is far and away the largest &#8220;LAN party&#8221; in the world. BioWare and LucasArts will be attending the event this year to give people the chance to play <em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2: The Old Republic\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 before its worldwide launch on December 20th.<\/p>\n<p>The DreamHack event begins at 8:00AM CET on Thursday, November 24th and runs, non-stop, until 8:00AM CET on Sunday, November 27th. Members of BioWare\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s European Community Team will be on hand throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The *BIG* news is regarding the next, and most likely final Beta weekend..<\/p>\n<p>If you have registered on the site as of yesterday (11\/10\/11)&#8230; you will be invited to the next beta weekend!\u00c2\u00a0 So while it&#8217;s not quite an open beta..it&#8217;s pretty damn close.\u00c2\u00a0 A generic confirmation email also started going out today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"228\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?attachment_id=228\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"651,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2011-11-11 at 11.14.39 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM-300x155.png\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM.png\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-228\" title=\"Screen Shot 2011-11-11 at 11.14.39 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM-300x155.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM-300x155.png 300w, http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-11-at-11.14.39-PM.png 651w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will also be Beta key giveaways on sites like IGN, if you were not registered for Beta on the official site already.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/news\/news-article\/20111111-0\">announcement<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The announcement lists all the sites that will be giving away beta keys as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that is also the weekend the NDA will be lifted (It&#8217;s just a guess.. but if you invite over a million people to the same weekend.. it&#8217;s gonna be real hard to keep them all observing the NDA).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BioWare has put together a FAQ about today&#8217;s Beta Weekend announcement&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/community\/showthread.php?p=10672193#edit10672193\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To continue the Friday update&#8230; we got the next video in the &#8220;Choose Your Side&#8221; series:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMMRZRsceUc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All in all, a very jam packed Friday update with lots of good info!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Skyrim busting update today&#8230;we got all kinds of good stuff! &nbsp; A new Beta weekend started (Invites started going out Weds, I believe). 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