When does the Alpha Test end?

[KiriA500]

Sounds like SE just has the world merge test to do before they call the servers stable enough to start work on Beta. I expect Beta in early 2013 considering they said that they have plans to possibly extend the Alpha (Just for giggles) to the end of the year meaning they don't have plans for Beta in 2012.

It was confirmed during the last Live Letter that the Beta test starts at the end of January/beginning of February.