Two Million SW:TOR Testers Play for Nine Million Hours in One Weekend

[Titheon]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/06/st...n-one-weekend/

Bioware recently threw open the gates of The Old Republic to anyone who wanted to try it out. The stress test initially put tremendous strain on the servers, but testers still managed to put in 12 hours of play each on average across the weekend. 725,000 testers logged in over Thanksgiving weekend, clocking up more than nine million hours between them.

The stats were announced by Bioware at the annual Global Media and Communications Conference, attended by Gamespot. There EA chief financial officer Eric Brown said that two million volunteers had signed up to test TOR for the open beta period. Yesterday Bioware shut down the ongoing beta as well to prepare for launch on December 20.

It looks as though launch day will attract some staggering numbers. Hopefully the servers won’t catch fire too much.

[Buckwald]

There's already a thread on this. Page 1 of the SWTOR forums.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1036808-2-Million-People-Played-the-Beta