SW:TOR Blog Focuses on Game Testing

Today's Star Wars: The Old Republic update is a blog entry by Live Producer Blaine Christine that gives us an inside look at game testing. If you're wondering what a live producer actually does, here is Christine's summary:

"As Live Producer, I work with the development team to ensure that anything released to our fans (read – you!) meets the quality standards that are so important to any BioWare product. That means any time a new build of the game makes it into our Game Testing Program, I need to ensure that any content or features that we specifically want to have tested meet the designers’ needs and don’t contain any major bugs. When that build is deployed for people to play, I need to ensure the design group is getting the feedback they need from Game Testing (AKA, real players) to balance and iterate on the game itself."

The blog entry contains some actual feedback from players who have tested the game, and most of them emphasize BioWare's focus on bringing storytelling to the MMO genre. Here's an example: "As one of those people who didn't really care about story in an MMO, after playing TOR I can't imagine playing another MMO unless it has as much focus on story as TOR does."

Christine ends the post by suggesting that all SW:TOR fans sign up to be a tester: "As we get closer to launch, the number of players invited to our tests will continue to increase - so if you haven’t made it in yet, don’t lose hope!"

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