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

[Warlock]

Haha, the acrobatics and contorsions on display here. Mental gymnastics at its best.

No, they messed up. SE made a mistake. Can you believe it?

They dropped the ball.

Now you are trying too hard here using wierd words >_>

[Aion]

I advise all of you to read through the alpha registration page again.

Read every word.

Every single word.

http://entry.ffxiv.com/alpha/index_en.html

-Must currently have an active FINAL FANTASY XIV account

-Must be willing to participate actively and submit bug reports in at least one of the following languages: Japanese, English, French, German


yeah Im sure the one who got invited currently have an active FINAL FANTASY XIV account and willing to participate actively

[urban]

why send invites to inactive account? why send to players who no longer play FFXIV? they'll never log back in anyway. its a waste of an invitation i say.

[Aion]

why send invites to inactive account? why send to players who no longer play FFXIV? they'll never log back in anyway. its a waste of an invitation i say.

why even some of them able to apply anyway....

[Rapture]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

I predicted this outcome back in September, so I'm personally not surprised.

[pool842]

were did you get your sumo caption at the bottom there lol priceless?

yeah you are
I didn't get in either and I'm pretty sure I've played/done more in this game than you, that's just how it goes

[Aion]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

I predicted this outcome back in September, so I'm personally not surprised.

This is not true, actually. I have a friend who was able to apply to the Alpha without an active XIV account. She had played the game before but her XIV account was closed when she applied (and still is). I've read people like this receiving invites from several sources and I don't have any reason to believe it wouldn't be true.

please explain, Im confused

[Reika]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

I predicted this outcome back in September, so I'm personally not surprised.

Pretty much this. Unless you were in so much rage over the games launch that you called and had your whole FFXIV account deleted, you would always be able to log in to the account management page even if you were'nt paying for any character options. Maybe thats not exactly how they view and active account, but it sounds feesable.

And, maybe they just didn't send out all the e-mails yet.

[urban]

why even some of them able to apply anyway....

ah your right /bow i guess they still care about the game as we do. just a little frustrated that i didnt get an e-mail. but congrats to those who got it. thanks Aion i forgot about that ^^d

[Aion]

Pretty much this. Unless you were in so much rage over the games launch that you called and had your whole FFXIV account deleted, you would always be able to log in to the account management page even if you were'nt paying for any character options. Maybe thats not exactly how they view and active account, but it sounds feesable.

And, maybe they just didn't send out all the e-mails yet.

Ive seen post claiming they cant apply alpha test because their account is inactive