Given the chance would you go for the beta?

If you were given the chance would you play the beta of SW:TOR?

I don't think I would to be honest. I have played closed and open beta's of other MMO's in the past and I think it has spoilt my enjoyment of the game when it was released. I never got that fresh new feel of a new mmo, because I had tested so much of it before in the beta.

I don't want that to happen with SW:TOR. I want the game to feel new, fresh and non of the story or landscapes to be already known to me. That would make my enjoyment all that more better. I don't want to spoil it at all. That I think is the reason I wouldn't play the beta, if we were given the option to do so. Maybe if there was an open beta the temptation would get to me, and I would test the character creation, but then go no further in the game.

Given the option, would you play the beta of SW:TOR?

I have never played an MMO beta, but i have played some beta from other games and my answer is i will not play beta if i got the chance.

Hmm... I see where you're coming from and I think that I too would refrain from beta for cimilar reasons. It also would have to depend on the availability of the beta. If it would be hard to get to, then I suppose I'd be better off waiting.

Yeah, good points and a good question. A few of us have talked about it in past threads. Given the chance, though, I think I'd do it. I'm weird. I don't mind replaying games, I enjoy them more playing them through again--same goes for music, most movies, haven't done often enough with books. And even though the character wouldn't carry over to the actual game I'd relish the opportunity to have a leg up in understanding the game to help people out and such. I also always wanted to be a video game critic as an adolescent so it'd be nice to actually have a reason to keep a scrupulous eye. I doubt I would get accepted, though.

The chance to get a feel for the class(es - hopefully) before solidly investing lots of time in 'proper' play is appealing. And often in strategy games or RPGs I find myself restarting a game after the learning curve has seen me make a few developmental blunders, before I get too far into it.

I wouldn't go terribly out of my way to get into the betas but if the opportunity fell into my lap I'd probably take it up.

Some good points made there. I still think I'd have a go at beta because like Red said, it's nice to have a feel for a game before you go into it. Plus there really aren't any other games that I'm dying to play more than this.

There's not much that can be added to the above points, so I won't

Personally I'd steer well clear of Beta for SW:TOR.

Any other game under the twin-suns? sure.

This one? Not on your nelly.

I want this game to be fresh right out of the box (to the extent I will be dodging leaked info on the net and probably not reading the more immersive interviews).
I like to think I know a fair bit about Star Wars lore, and I want to know as little as possible on BioWare's spin on it.

In short, in an attempt to make the RP experience as realistic as possible, I want to play someone who has 'lived' (Read, Watched, RP'd and played games in) in the Star Wars universe who is now just taking his first footsteps into The Old Republic.

I don't think I would, I'd rather wait until a (hopefully) finished product come release day.

When this opportunity will be somehow given to me, I would join the lot who wants to play beta. For similliar reasons. To be acknowledged with the game, it's mechanisms, possibilities and therefore helping people out. And an option to play all classes and try them a little, before commiting myself to my smuggler