Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
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.
If that happens, good luck finding ppl to play with when the game restarts. If they can't manage to have a "short" period of downtime they will loose lots of subscriptions.