[Reminder] Are you ready to cry again? (2° Wave of Alpha invites tomorrow, 3 dec.)

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Originally Posted by EinSoFZ

I'm pretty sure they said this was based on logins though. As in they will look at the number of people playing and then go from there as far as more invites are concerned..

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Actually, it was said they are creating a new server this week and sending another wave of invites. Then after that they will be inviting in the manner you explained.

It's OK if I didn't make it through, it's the devs telling me don't go in yet, we are not ready for you!

The people that went in before haven't prepared the new Eorzea with subligars on every corner. The world is not appropriate for subligar king candidate such as myself to walk in. Yellow brick road? No thanks, I only walk on subligar road, devs know this and working hard to make it happen.

Yep that must be it.... at least that's what the twelve told me... in my dream...

Alpha is not a big deal anyway, most people are just bored and don't know how to waste their time (just look at the forums)

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Originally Posted by Sav

wait, harakiri is the wrong reading of what? as far as i know, it's a legitimate word.

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切腹　= seppuku, ritual suicide
腹切り = harakiri, "stomach cutting"

As my teacher explained it, when the Americans were translating this for the first time, the just took the 2 kanji and read them as if they were written as 2 words (the reading changes when 2 or more kanji are written together), so they read it as "harakiri" instead of "seppuku". Don't ask me how they managed to swap the kanji order, it's what I've been told. Fact is, no one corrected them (maybe they thought it was rude, maybe people didn't listen or maybe they were laughing about foreigners being too dumb to read), so it is now a legitimate word in English, but doesn't have a special meaning in Japanese (contrary to seppuku). There is a similar story about "kamikaze" too, but I don't remember what the correct reading was...

/JP trivia

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

It's OK if I didn't make it through, it's the devs telling me don't go in yet, we are not ready for you!

The people that went in before haven't prepared the new Eorzea with subligars on every corner. The world is not appropriate for subligar king candidate such as myself to walk in. Yellow brick road? No thanks, I only walk on subligar road, devs know this and working hard to make it happen.

Yep that must be it.... at least that's what the twelve told me... in my dream...

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At least your staying positive. This wait is eating away at my soul, lol. :(

I'm surprised Reinheart hasn't gotten an invite to alpha after translating all those JP post to EN.

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Originally Posted by DarkkenMoneybags

I'm surprised Reinheart hasn't gotten an invite to alpha after translating all those JP post to EN.

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His subligar has too high specs.

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Originally Posted by DarkkenMoneybags

I'm surprised Reinheart hasn't gotten an invite to alpha after translating all those JP post to EN.

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Better to invite people that did level 5 with a class on sept 2010 then quited.

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Originally Posted by Dragonheart

Better to invite people that did level 5 with a class on sept 2010 then quited.

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Really looks that way. its sad the way this invite process went.

It's a good thing there wasn't any priority for anyone. There's no reason for there to be priority either.

I don't have an invite yet, and that's fine. I really want to try it out and contribute to making the game awesome, but I'm not entitled or anything; everybody has their own same chance of getting in.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Alpha is not a big deal anyway, most people are just bored and don't know how to waste their time (just look at the forums)


切腹　= seppuku, ritual suicide
腹切り = harakiri, "stomach cutting"

As my teacher explained it, when the Americans were translating this for the first time, the just took the 2 kanji and read them as if they were written as 2 words (the reading changes when 2 or more kanji are written together), so they read it as "harakiri" instead of "seppuku". Don't ask me how they managed to swap the kanji order, it's what I've been told. Fact is, no one corrected them (maybe they thought it was rude, maybe people didn't listen or maybe they were laughing about foreigners being too dumb to read), so it is now a legitimate word in English, but doesn't have a special meaning in Japanese (contrary to seppuku). There is a similar story about "kamikaze" too, but I don't remember what the correct reading was...

/JP trivia

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Could be read as shinpuu? :p