Didn't get an Alpha Invite? Cheer up!

[ShinigamiKayla]

While this may be true, if you worked for SE and wanted to make sure you impressed these people to come back, would you give them priority to participate in the Alpha with all the lacking features an Alpha will inevitably have?

...and yes, I am a little bitter, mostly because I suspect Alpha testers will get first dibs on participating in Beta.

you had to of signed up to participate in Alpha >.> why don't you blame people registering and not the company for accepting them?

[Cynthis]

you had to of signed up to participate in Alpha >.> why don't you blame people registering and not the company for accepting them?

I'm not blaming anyone, just pointing out that the argument that those that quit early should get access to Alpha ahead of those that played 1.xx for a long time seems flawed to me.

[blackada]

Maybe SE expected the testing experience to be so poor that those testers would likely quit.
Perhaps they didn't want to disappoint and alienate their main player base.

[Abriael]

Maybe SE expected the testing experience to be so poor that those testers would likely quit.
Perhaps they didn't want to disappoint and alienate their main player base.

Considering that the feedback from the Japanese testers is rather enthusiastic, that seems a very unlikely scenario.

[Mrfox0707]

All in all we are not missing out on anything yet. The alpha is crazy limited as far as content goes. It will be more fun to get in laters me thinks.

[Sanctus]

In spite of all that's happened, in spite of all the progress the game has made, as well as the many heads that ARR has managed to turn, there are still people who frown upon the game and are it's doomwhisperers; constantly whining and moaning that the game will NEVER be a success, even though reactions to it say otherwise.

Many of these people, in my experience, are the ones who quit the game early on and never looked back. I think that these kinds of people would probably just scoff at the chance to make the game they hated better by providing testing and feedback support to SE and Yoshida's team, and that any chances given to them will go to waste.

On the other hand, SE knows they have thousands of possible testers for Alpha invites at their disposal; people who, while being staunch fans of the game for a long time, are still willing to provide honest feedback and support to the team so they don't make the same decision made over 2 years ago, to release the game incomplete and skeletal.

I think that people who've played 1.x for as long as they have, since the beginning (and I partially include myself for various reasons) should have been given first chance to enter Alpha and provide support during the testing, because they're probably the game's best hope for success, given that they'll provide honest feedback.

Naysayers can go **** themselves.

Do you realize how stupid that sounds? That type of person would NOT ever consider applying for the alpha to begin with...

[Gramul]

They're testing server stress right now, yes?

That makes me a perfect candidate!
I'm overflowing with stress!

[Ryokyu]

i have one question when you do the alpha application and you not sure if you wrote right you email how can u go back and check? a friend of my think he wrote his email wrong but i cant find an answer lmao

[Wynn]

i have one question when you do the alpha application and you not sure if you wrote right you email how can u go back and check? a friend of my think he wrote his email wrong but i cant find an answer lmao

The email would be the email address associated with your square-enix account. So if you wanted to know what email it is going to, you would log into the account management system and check.

[Valmonte]

That makes me a perfect candidate!
I'm overflowing with stress!

[Waves Hand] thats not the stress your looking for, your free to go about your business.