Alert: Beware Of Bogus Beta Key Giveaways

Normally we wouldn’t do an entire post on just one developer comment, even with as much love as we have for Mr. Reid! But his post today was important enough that we wanted to help make sure the message gets out as far and wide as possible:

At this time, there are no websites, anywhere, who are officially partnered with EA or BioWare to ‘give away’ Game Testing invites or ‘Beta Keys’. Any site suggesting otherwise is mistaken.

The only way to get a Game Testing invite (of any kind) at this time is to be signed up to test and to be officially invited by BioWare, via email. As always, to check if you have been invited to test, login to http://swtor.com/tester/

Please be aware that some sites may ask you to download software in exchange for promised ‘Beta Keys’. This software may be malicious and may damage your PC. You are never required to download anything to be invited to Game Testing – you will only need to download the game client after you are invited, which is only available from SWTOR.com.

As always people, just be aware of things that seem to good to be true. If you don’t hear about it on SWTOR.com from BioWare, then you can assume it’s complete fabrication. There is no safer stance than that!