MMORPG.com Community Manager Michael Bitton has some thoughts about game testing. He offers insight into what it is, what it isn't, how to help when you do and, just maybe, reasons not to participate in game testing or beta testing your most highly-anticipated games.

Despite being a self-professed Star Wars geek, and fighting my natural urge to want to get my hands on just about any “beta test” as most gamers often do, I don’t really want to test this one as much. It’s the fact I am a Star Wars geek that makes me averse to full-blown testing this game, for the same reasons I probably wouldn’t have wanted to be there on set when they shot the Star Wars films: spoilers!

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