12/3/12 More testers to be accepted

[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.