Quote Originally Posted by KiriA500 View Post
You wouldn't think that would matter. The game was so perfect in that state that it should have drawn players regardless of carrying over to the inferior version of the game.

Tons of people played during the beta tests, and those weren't recorded either.
No one said the game was perfect. And most of us still had no idea how ARR was going to exactly be.
Why bother continuing to replay when the new version was coming out and nothing we did anymore would count for it?

People played the beta tests because hey, shiny new game. But even towards the end of those I stopped bothering beyond basic bug reporting. I'm not saying ARR is bad, or even that 1.23 was perfect. I'm saying this was a wasted opportunity that resulted in an okay game.