Beta Test - starting soon?

[GinTama]

i beg to differ

Alpha doesn't start until the worlds go offline (On or sometime after November 11th, which is the Japanese only Alpha too) based on the last info we got through a gamewatch article. I doubt beta will start this year even.

"We are currently aiming to start the alpha test sometime this autumn."
found in the FAQs

Further i think yoshida mentioned Alpah starts end september early october for JP.
I could be mistaken on this.

Beta should start after servers are down.

From the amount of players running around during the live letter. there is already a crash test dummy group testing. The million gil question of course is if that's there internal qa group or if those are the jp probono crashtesters.

Thats what i was thinking. I could be a couple interns testing. OR japanese alpha testers.

What i know, is that yoshida said JP will be the first to alpha test followed by the rest of the world, step by step.