SE Rep - can you share with us the criteria for selection of Alpha testers

[Kallera]

The desire to make the game a success and/or the willingness to improve the game by giving feedback and report bugs is higher as a FF14 fan who played it all along than a guy who quit after trial.

"Oh look, my game crashed when I do X. I'm just going to do nothing about it because I want to level to 20 first and see Y before they take down the server for maintenance."

It sounds just as bad the other way too.

[Dragonheart]

They had a special button:


:P

[Phe]

2 whole bugs, in a game that was full of them, wow you really made a difference.

The question remains, why are you so butthurt over not getting an Alpha invite?

think u're trolling now but w/e.
i'm not "butthurt" for not getting an invite, i just think SE's criterias for choosing the testers is at least questionable.
reactivated my FF11 account so it's not that i'm bored

[Gokulo]

think u're trolling now but w/e.
i'm not "butthurt" for not getting an invite, i just think SE's criterias for choosing the testers is at least questionable.
reactivated my FF11 account so it's not that i'm bored

Wonder if you would question them if you did get in :P

[Phe]

Wonder if you would question them if you did get in :P

well... touché.
but at least i could understand those who do. ;p

[Raubahn]

basically they gave the short timers in 1.0 who quit during the first few months of release thats why the alpha mails were sent to them so they can attract them to 2.0 and increase the majority of gaming
imagine it as elections where your certain that your friend is going to vote for you but you focus on others who dont

[Phe]

thats why the alpha mails were sent to them so they can attract them to 2.0

yea some of the white knights keep saying that.
but that's just plain wrong.
why should potential gamers be attracted more to the game by takin part in an alpha full of bugs than in the beta that's much closer to the final product?

[Gokulo]

yea some of the white knights keep saying that.
but that's just plain wrong.
why should potential gamers be attracted more to the game by takin part in an alpha full of bugs than in the beta that's much closer to the final product?

White knights, lol.

You poor soul.

[mikecoby]

basically they gave the short timers in 1.0 who quit during the first few months of release thats why the alpha mails were sent to them so they can attract them to 2.0 and increase the majority of gaming
imagine it as elections where your certain that your friend is going to vote for you but you focus on others who dont

Amen to that.

[whoopeeragon]

yea some of the white knights keep saying that.
but that's just plain wrong.
why should potential gamers be attracted more to the game by takin part in an alpha full of bugs than in the beta that's much closer to the final product?

And that's why they had an application page. So if you expressed interest in the testing of a game, you could do so. It was not a random selection across every single person who bought FFXIV. Only across those who applied to be in alpha.

Be they applied for the lols or not, even SE cannot determine that. The fact that they used an application means that every single person they choose HAD AT LEAST a shred of interest in the testing of the game.