{"id":6692,"date":"2010-07-12T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"star-wars-the-old-republic-goes-into-public-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6692-star-wars-the-old-republic-goes-into-public-testing","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Old Republic goes into public testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware has announced that their upcoming Star Wars themed MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, is currently in a &ldquo;game testing&rdquo; period. While most developers would simply call it a beta, Bioware is resisting using the word.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lucky testers have been notified via email, and the testing is being conducted to &#8220;provide valuable feedback to help us tune particular areas of gameplay and begin the process of balancing and tweaking our content,&#8221; the announcement explains. Sounds A LOT like a beta to me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first wave consists solely of North American testers, and testers from other regions are expected to be included &ldquo;later.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not too late to throw your name into the hat if you&rsquo;re interested in being part of the Star Wars: The Old Republic &ldquo;testing&rdquo; program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6984-Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-beta-under-way?p=255696#post255696\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Star Wars: The Old Republic testing program <\/a>in the forums<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware resists the word \u201cbeta\u201d, \u201ctesting program\u201d underway<\/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-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","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=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}