Quote Originally Posted by SkyeWindbinder View Post
lol If it was more my problem than yours, I would have been the one to get angry, instead of you.
You're assuming that I'm angry. Finding something rather distasteful and writing about it isn't an equivalent to being angry.

Neither would I consider such actions sensible. Then again, that's a terrible metaphor to use to describe this situation
Is it? They're not called "flames" for nothing. And again, you're continuing to interpret people's motives rather arbitrarily.

-People post that they have concerns over how alpha was handled because of misinformation
There's no misinformation, or better, that "misinformation" was created by SE itself. They're the ones that officially stated that only people with an active account were eligible. It hasn't been invented by some other misinformative source.

Which is exactly the problem. Misinforming paying customers is a bad, bad idea. On a case by case base it's possible to get away with it, but it's always a risk not worth taking.

Well, perhaps it's just me, but I have yet to see a game being brought down or even slightly damaged due to how a closed alpha was slightly mishandles, especially when a beta has yet to really happen. As for SSM, that's a slightly bigger and more contraversial issue than some mis-info on closed alpha. I mean, I was there for Star Wars: The Old Republic after all. I kind of undersand how that's a MUCHO GRANDE bigger deal. But a closed alpha session, an almost private testing of a game that will likely get at least one or maybe two more testing sessions before the game is realed? Hmm.... nah, I just don't see it as a critical blow. But then, just my humble $0.02.
Customers are sensitive, any kind of situations in which they're fed wrong information is a potential can of worms. It may not be a "critical blow", but a good boxer avoids all the blows he can, no matter if they're critical or not, they add up.