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Old Republic euro beta delayed

Hopefully not for long.

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Bioware have decided to postpone the Game Testing invites to European players, that was meant to go out right about now. The reasons as stated by European community manager Chris Collins on the official forums:

"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."

Hopefully, Bioware have these issues sorted shortly so that more Europeans can join in the beta testing. There is a tremble in the force and we can feel it getting closer now.

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