SE is always SE... Rage inside... :/

[Dragonheart]

ROTFL... more ppl that i did not even remember who only played the trial month only, are coming on the guild TS, saying that they got the invitation... This can't be real... Only SE can do things like this.. MEH.

[Enma]

Invite those for a beta, not the alpha.

This, this and this again! Alpha it's a stress test isn't it?! So it's not the right "field" to experience the new game, especially for those people who quitted years ago.

[Dragonheart]

Invite those for a beta, not the alpha.

Right. Give the alpha to who paid and expecially to who have experience in the game.
Then let try the beta (that will be more complete on every aspect) to everyone.

Giving the a work in progress alpha, is a risk.

[Dannythm]

When is the next phase anyways?

If I recall correctly, this phase of the alpha will get more invites, because it's a stress test on several zones (they are aiming to have max server capacity, around 5k players on 2 servers, that's 10k), and also they want to test EU/US latency and whatnot, so I think during this week there's a chance more invites are sent.

[Xikeroth]

Invite those for a beta, not the alpha.

I'm not saying they SHOULDN'T have been given a chance, but it should have been equal chance. If they DIDN'T give them a chance then those people may have thought that SE doesn't want their business anyways.

The only difference is we've been playing the game and they haven't. Its also one of the key factors.

[Munba]

Giving the a work in progress alpha, is a risk.

This could be a risk indeed.

Btw, if one of your winning friends will refuse to play the alpha, i'm here to resolve the problem.

[Kenka]

Invite those for a beta, not the alpha.

This. Most of the quitters don't want to know how stable the server is when x people are fighting y mobs in the same zone or if they can push those numbers a bit further. They want to know if they can quest, fight, play without it being as tedious as in 1.0 at launch. I don't know how much content is present in the Alpha builds, but i doubt it's enough to make them stay for good.

[Kallivis]

I'm not whining because i didn't receive the alpha invitation, but a lot of my friend that have quit the game AFTER THE FIRST MONTH FROM THE RELEASE GOT IT! And me (and others of course) supporting the game and paying for the crappy 1.0, didn't receive it.

Only who had an active FFXIV account was supposed to get the invitation right?

Now tell me dead SE, for the love of god WHY???

Random means random.

Random does not mean take anything into consideration.

Random does not sympathise.

Besides, this is a test. This isn't a free early game experience like 80% of people seem to think it is. You are supposed to be there to give feedback, not to "try out the game" or "have fun".

Relish in the fact that you get to play it later and don't spoil yourself too much early on.

[Dragonheart]

This could be a risk indeed.

Btw, if one of your winning friends will refuse to play the alpha, i'm here to resolve the problem.

Naaa he will play it a bit just to tell in ts EVERY bad thing about the game.

Ohh look at the crappy animation, ahh this lag badly, ahh the bs is dead slow, ahhh you can shot behind the rocks and not getting the loss of view (this is when he saw garuda :P ) .

But then ill try it anyway :P

[Skies]

ROTFL... more ppl that i did not even remember who only played the trial month only, are coming on the guild TS, saying that they got the invitation... This can't be real... Only SE can do things like this.. MEH.

Dragonheart I will tell you...
That in your case i'd really suspect that i'm being trolled by my friends than that SE is doing something weird, really. Too many coincidences >_>
I suggest either you beat your friends upside the head until they barf out video proof, or that you disbelieve them.