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If you dont have active account, you should not be able to APPLY at all.

- if SE is letting inactive accounts to apply. they should remove "Must have an active FF XIV account" from the requirements

-if inactive account able to apply, when it is not SE intention, they should give confirmation of this oversight.

-if SE is inviting inactive account without having them to applying in the alpha registration page, its up to them, but be prepared that some people will objection this.

Goodness. I can confirm you will get an error message stating you must have an active FFXIV account if you try to apply with one that isn't. To reiterate what MrKupo said, even if you can only apply with an active account, it doesn't mean nor imply that SE will only send invites to active FFXIV players. They can very well choose other players who did not apply but have played FFXIV before. As a matter of fact someone I know got an invitation but never applied. Edit: or at least they don't remember applying.

And btw, what's your definition of "active" account? "Active" doesn't only mean something's being used, it can also mean that it's "working". I haven't played FFXI in ages and to my knowledge, my FFXI account still works even if I don't use it. I can log on, pay up and continue playing whenever I want. That doesn't sound very inactive to me. It would be inactive if I decided to delete it.