[Reminder] Are you ready to cry again? (2° Wave of Alpha invites tomorrow, 3 dec.)

[vax]

I don't think the person's actual address comes in to play here, just the type of account^^. Say for instance I had a Japanese account and I was living in Iceland (I know, nuts right?), I am pretty sure I'd be eligible for the Japanese Alpha based on my account type and not my place of residence.

I hope this makes sense!


Quick edit! - Due to time differences between Japan and the USA I wouldn't be surprised if we only saw one wave of invites as when the invites go out on say the 7th, it is still the 6th over here in the states. (Though I hope this is not the case! I would like to see more people get in that want to test!)

Yes, i know now that is about the account, but if you look at the Bayohne post:

To ensure a broad scope of testing for the Alpha Test, we did accept users with specific types of machines, setups, connection types, ISPs, geographical locations and other configurations that we need to test that may, or may not, meet every requirement on the application. Alpha is an important first step for testing and we need to make sure we have a wide breadth of users testing it.

For SE, there are ocean down of North America, i don't think they want to look of countries from South America for the alpha, this is why i think it's a little random.

[Forgo]

O.O!! WOOF?

[Day_Night]

So much difference lol

[Cedri]

Sup QQers! Mod's on and the room's up! Click

[Nix]

O.O!! WOOF?

[Forgo]

i like the ball..it makes sense..like pie...btw i no like crying

[Nix]

That /cry .gif cracks me up lol

[Andrien]

Hi Andrien,

Did you see the Airport Batsu Game? (and for New Year's Eve this year they're having a new epic Batsu Game as well.)

Sweet! I did some searching on the webs and I found a site where I can watch them. Thanks!

[SkyeWindbinder]

I'm kind of torn as far as whether or not I really want an alpha invite.

One one hand, I would love to have a chance to test the game. I'm sure I could find a few ways to break it, lol.

On another hand, if I do get an alpha invite, I'll be too busy testing to come here on the forums and make fun of all the people QQing because they didn't get in.

Hmmm... :/

[Spectre]

I did read it. And nowhere it says "we had to accept people that didn't have an active account".

Why does it have to spell that out when most reasonable people would be able to get that from the "may, or may not, meet every requirement on the application" part?

The little (actually enormous) flaw in your reasoning is that for most of the application period users with inactive accounts could not even apply. They would be bounced as soon as they logged in with an "your account is inactive, you can't apply" message.

Even assuming that the opening of the application to inactive accounts has been intentional (and it's a rather big assumption), when you do that kind of thing and change the rules you *need* to communicate it.

So, they didn't mean to let people without active accounts apply? That just makes them incompetent, not so sure how I feel about that... But making that big assumption, how would you have handled it then?

Even assuming that your theory about them intentionally opening to inactive accounts is somewhat founded, their communication on the matter has been extremely lackluster, and when you deal with customers communication and transparency are always the key.

Doing this kind of things on the hush hush never works too well.

It really does amaze me how you don't see your responses as over-reacting.

I wonder how well it would have worked out for them to annouce that same quote BEFORE first round of acceptance emails went out. How many people would have assumed that they were going to get shafted from the get go? Managing that would have been way easier then addressing the few people after the fact that got bent out fo shape right?

What I'm most curious of, since we are talking about lies, and such...

Honestly, if you would have gotten an invite in the first round, would you still be championing this cause for all those other people that the company has so greiviously insulted with this?