wraggster
April 14th, 2011, 23:00
Companies selling Star Wars: The Old Republic currency for real-world money have begun hawking their wares - months before the game's projected launch.
Popular gold seller IGXE (Internet Game Exchange) press released its SWTOR service today. IGXE offers a placeholder price of £650 for 1000 SWTOR credits.
Expand the search for SWTOR credits/gold to Google and a thriving pre-release market appears: website addresses include starwarscredit.com, swtorforsale.com, swtorsell.com, swtorgolds.com, swtorgold.net, cheapswtorcredit.com, buyoldrepubliccredits.net, cheap-swtor-credits.org, and so on.
Do they know already how to effectively earn SWTOR credits to sell? Or do they simply presume they will be able to?
More to the point - can BioWare stop them?
A closed beta for Star Wars: The Old Republic looms, and more than 1.5 million gamers have registered their interest in joining it (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-16-ea-1-5m-register-swtor-beta-interest), according to EA.
The closed beta should, for the first time, allow press to explore the world of Star Wars: The Old Republic unhindered - i.e. without the stabilisers of a controlled EA demo.
The launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic will depend, to a degree, upon beta feedback. But EA recently announced the "reasonable" assumption of a 2011 release (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-16-ea-1-5m-register-swtor-beta-interest) somewhere between July and December.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-14-you-can-buy-swtor-gold-credits-now
Popular gold seller IGXE (Internet Game Exchange) press released its SWTOR service today. IGXE offers a placeholder price of £650 for 1000 SWTOR credits.
Expand the search for SWTOR credits/gold to Google and a thriving pre-release market appears: website addresses include starwarscredit.com, swtorforsale.com, swtorsell.com, swtorgolds.com, swtorgold.net, cheapswtorcredit.com, buyoldrepubliccredits.net, cheap-swtor-credits.org, and so on.
Do they know already how to effectively earn SWTOR credits to sell? Or do they simply presume they will be able to?
More to the point - can BioWare stop them?
A closed beta for Star Wars: The Old Republic looms, and more than 1.5 million gamers have registered their interest in joining it (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-16-ea-1-5m-register-swtor-beta-interest), according to EA.
The closed beta should, for the first time, allow press to explore the world of Star Wars: The Old Republic unhindered - i.e. without the stabilisers of a controlled EA demo.
The launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic will depend, to a degree, upon beta feedback. But EA recently announced the "reasonable" assumption of a 2011 release (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-16-ea-1-5m-register-swtor-beta-interest) somewhere between July and December.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-04-14-you-can-buy-swtor-gold-credits-now