{"id":4536,"date":"2009-09-30T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"star-wars-mmorpg-beta-testing-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/4536-star-wars-mmorpg-beta-testing-begins","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars MMORPG Beta testing begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those gamers who are interested in trying out Lucas Arts and Bioware&rsquo;s new MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic will be able to do so sooner than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Registrations for the BETA test of the game have recently opened although limited spaces are available. Lucas Arts advises all interested players to sign up now in order to have &ldquo;the best possible chance of getting selected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To sign up gamers must be registered members of the Star Wars: The Old Republic online community. If you are not a member you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/user\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to register. If you are already registered then you can sign up at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtor.com\/tester\" target=\"_blank\">gaming portal<\/a>, just be sure to select the box asking if you interested in becoming a tester.<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars: The Old Republic is Bioware&rsquo;s first attempt at developing an MMORPG. The company is famed for its development of Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, which is due in early 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The game will feature four classes, namely the Bounty Hunter and the Sith Warrior for the Sith Empire and the Trooper and Smuggler for the Galactic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars: The Old Republic has no official release date as yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2878&amp;page=2\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Star Wars MMO beta <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Register as a tester for Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}