Global Alpha Test Start Date

[SkyeWindbinder]

One definition from one dictionary is hardly an "official" definition. "ticked off", as many vernacular expressions, describes a wide range of emotions, that goes from simple annoyance to anger.

There was plenty call for me or others to find your remarks distasteful, as they are quite evidently very confrontational and insulting. No matter who they're aimed at.

lol Well, that's your opinion. Just as it's my opinion to find that you actually got angry at my statements (despite your denial), which was really unnecessary. But hey, perspectives vary from person to person.

I'm afraid something isn't "truth" just because you say it is.

But it is truth if it's factual. So, yeah. lol

Square Enix said quite clearly that those that didn't have an active account were not entitled to apply for the alpha. So the entitlement is justified because it came from an official source.

Except those who feel that they should automatically get in because of their veteran status. Which is not justified. As that is not what SE stated. Get it?

The fact that they didn't apply that rule that they set is an entirely different pair of sleeves, and it's exactly the issue.

And people having a problem with how SE handled things as far as that goes are not the people I was talking about. lol

You continue to ignore the fact that the degree of seriousness of the issue is besides the point. When you run a business, you avoid issues when you can. There's no reason to run headlong into them.

And you continue to ignore the fact that perspective and judgment is needed in these cases to determine whether a blinder is a serious, dangerous, red-alert one or one that can easily be handled without too much trouble. If a car has a flat tire, that is a problem. But you can still use the car if you change the flat. No need to declare the car unusable from that day forth, and no need to stand there grumbling about how disastrous things would be if the car had four flat tires or blew up or something.

Companies should always assume a degree of risk. So yes, they should plan taking in account that more damage is yet to come.

WHEN. IT. COMES.

They gave wrong info about how a closed alpha was to be handled. Not really as big a deal as you would like to believe it is. Not nearly. Not even slightly. lol Companies sould always assume a degree of risk, yes. Companies should also have enough perspective to know the difference between horrible, un-fixable mistake and slight, hardly worth dwelling on blunder.

I'm not flipping out. You're the one insulting others in this thread. Not me.

Not at all. I'm just calling crybabies and whiners crybabies and whiners. If they don't like it, maybe they should stop crying and whining. Blunt, rough, even unkind as it may be, truth often is that way.

I'm perfectly relaxed.

Sure you are. lol

Again, I'm not the one throwing insults at people I don't even know here, calling them "whiners" "crybabies" and other interesting epithets. SE should be worried, and *is* worried, like any company in the world, about everything that can damage its image. Feeding wrong information to customers falls entirely in that category of issues.

lol Worried, I doubt it. Simply doing his part to calm the people complaining, yes indeed. Again, a blunder about mis-info as far as a closed alpha is hardly somehting Yoshi, or anyone else in SE for hat matter, should (or is) sweating bullets over. Your assumption of otherwise is cute, at best. But a bit disproportionate in judgment, imo.