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

[HiirNoivl]

I think the difference here is, raging you didn't get in or being overly excited for stress testing is something you can really poke fun at because that pretty much guarantees most sent an app just to play the game. It's not "superior", it's making fun of how strong the reactions of love/hate has been over simple testing.

How often did you get to the point of pissing your pants in excitement for tests in school compared to going on a field trip?

Of course, your feelings of superiority allow to make such presumptions on people's motivations. Even you should understand that game testing is actually qualifiable as fun as you are actually testing a game.

And in this case, it's testing a game that they obviously really like.

You have no reason to poke fun at anyone, Elexia.

EDIT: That said, any requests to reveal who was picked and how they were picked needs to stop.

[Montijin]

You not getting in because you've been playing while others who quit is probably intentional. They need people who thought the game was bad the first time around to make sure they like it this time around.

SE isn't looking for Yes men.

[Obsy]

I wonder if the SE offices had a pool going to bet on exactly how many rage threads would be created this morning...

[Kestiel]

Seems to pretty much sum up the threads lately.

[Exn]

They're NOT ALLOWED to tell you they've gotten into the alpha @_@.

Quick edit, copypasta-ing from another post in another thread(far far away...) I made earlier today on the same subject:

We already established this Nix. That was me you were having that convo with LOL. They can say whether or not they got an invitation, just not if they accepted the invitation..

Aside from that I was asking if anyone HEARD of any Legacy players getting in... we all have heard of plenty of not-so-actives getting in (and I said I personally know of 2 not-so-actives myself earlier). A Legacy player doesn't have to come to the forums to announce it (most people would call it phone-a-friend).. I just think we should have heard of more (or any) Legacy players getting invites if it was in fact "random". That is why I don't believe it was random, well that and SE said they didnt want to divulge their methodology (if it was completely random I think they would have just said that.. hard to realistically blame them for a RNG).

[Chardrizard]

LOL! I don't know what makes you think it's random... but it seems pretty obvious that it wasn't.

Heck, SE could have made it alot easier by saying that it'll be based on RNG, but they knew it would be too obvious after the invites went out that it wasn't a 'random' thing. I have not heard of a single Legacy player getting an invite, and if ther are some, I'm assuming it's based on working the past Alpha for the 1.0 client. I've been doing mah research, this wasn't random!! Although yes, some people should prolly calm it down abit.

3 of my friends that gets in is legacy, 2 being active players and 1 haven't play for few months but still paying for the account.

Will this finally shut you off? unlike Dragonheart's friends that only posts at facebook claiming they got into alpha which even my mom could do, my friends actually showed me the picture of client downloading and alpha forum outlook.

[Reika]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...C%81%EF%BD%97?

[Yazoo]

It was not random. Not truly random.
Everyone answered some question, so if you are in target group your chance to get invite higher. It's obvious, isn't it?
I didn't get one, but there will be one or more waves. I can wait for week or two or three. Any way, one day everyone will play ARR.

[GavenBylander]

There's a lot of us that didn't receive it, but sadly paying every month and supporting the game doesn't guarantee you a spot though I'm pretty sure they mentioned somewhere that they gave some priority to active accounts. They're going to want to entice some people back though and what better way to get them to re-sub once 2.0 hits? To show them the progress they've made so far yet give them a chance to yet again test a game and help them rebuild.

Sad but true I was gonna rage as well but who cares... yoshi clearly doesn't. I been playing and paying since beta (when they did start making us pay)

[Gokulo]

It was not random. Not truly random.
Everyone answered some question, so if you are in target group your chance to get invite higher. It's obvious, isn't it?
I didn't get one, but there will be one or more waves. I can wait for week or two or three. Any way, one day everyone will play ARR.

The wait won't even be that long. They said after initial test they will be probably opening the servers 24/7 if everything goes well and invite more people. So I'd expect more invite this week even.