12/3/12 More testers to be accepted

[Shougun]

wait official confirmation from SE before getting all excited
as long as no official post on Lodestone, I would take it lightly

The 12/3 thing is official.

And Nix I'm surprised you even had to put your head to the monitor. You can hear the forum itself lament

[Nix]

wait official confirmation from SE before getting all excited
as long as no official post on Lodestone, I would take it lightly

There is official confirmation

Le-sniiiiip~ Click the little blue icon!

[Nix]

The 12/3 thing is official.

And Nix I'm surprised you even had to put your head to the monitor. You can hear the forum itself lament

Haha!

Well after 2 years, I have kinda tuned out that BAWWwwwwwWWwwwwwQ___Q sound

[Warlock]

All those sweet tears from QQing will last me till next year

[Kazza2003]

Good news for the remaining people with less than a weeks game time then

Seriously? I have 2 continues years of playing XIV and got no invite. Instead my brother, who has merely 1 month of time on his account got an invite. So please think first and then post.

[RosenKreuz]

[Majidah]

While this is nice to hear, it saddens me to see the behaviour of all the people who raged over invitations rewarded.

[AlexNiculaie]

I wouldn't say they were being rewarded, as far as I have seen the plan was always to keep adding more people with each stage.

[Molly_Millions]

How long will the Alpha last? o.o

As long as it needs to, hopefully.

[KaplanHomahru]

I wouldn't say they were being rewarded, as far as I have seen the plan was always to keep adding more people with each stage.

They were always going to add more people yes, but not at the rate/scale they plan now...and they are doing it because everyone is complaining...Yoshi admitted it, and he said you can't even call it an alpha test anymore at that stage...its not a test, its just everyone playing with the alpha client. Quote from yoshi:


"From phase 4 we plan on conducting world merge testing, and we will decide on the schedule as we monitor the conditions of phase 3. However, since everyone's requests are so strong, we are looking into opening the Alpha Test worlds as close to the end of the year as possible. (We can’t really call it an Alpha Test then, but…)"

So yeah, good job everyone (that complained)! Your selfishness/unapologetic entitlement is being rewarded. I just hope it doesn't impact beta in any way(yoshi said it shouldnt), because let's face it - BETA is where all the interesting stuff will happen.