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

[Pandemonium]

Woop, just got a Beta invite!

[Gramul]

Woop, just got a Beta invite!

I didn't.


Maybe because I was banned at one point for cursing up a storm at the higherups?

[Felis]

Woop, just got a Beta invite!

Where can we register for beta invite?
I have no luck with the alpha, so I test my luck with the beta

[moriandrio]

There is no beta registration yet, and ppl that signed up for alpha won't need todo

[Abriael]

All things considered it's truly sad to see how many that supported the game through thick and tin are being excluded from the possibility to give direct feedback on the alpha, in favor of people that stopped caring long ago, no less.

That's why I love kickstarter and support as many games as my wallet allows there. You support a game? The developer recognizes it, takes your feedback very seriously and will do whatever he can to provide you with the proper means to provide that feedback (automatic access to alpha, beta and so forth). And that's why I have a reasonable amount of confidence that games like Star Citizen will come out very nicely.

It's simply unfortunate that here our support hasn't been equally considered and the feedback of those that have been here through the hardest times isn't equally valued.

Hopefully the selection process for the beta will be less wacky.

[Elexia]

There is no beta registration yet, and ppl that signed up for alpha won't need todo

You're not grandfathered into beta this time around, so that means their: "Try to get active/legacy players into beta" will likely go haywire again like it did in Alpha.

[Abriael]

And another of my friends that was inactive since the first month got into the alpha today, after applying no more than a couple weeks ago. I really wouldn't want to facepalm, but both my palms and my face are being irresistibly affected by mutual gravitational attraction...

[Pseudopsia]

Holy smokes, 126 pages!!!

@Abriael: Give it a rest!

Selection for closed Alpha and betas are never fair and cannot be with limited resources. And it doesn't matter how vocal you are. Only Open betas are fair.

There are a limit amount of servers and content so is no way they can stuff everyone in a tiny box in a few zones. You should at least appreciate that SE is keeping alpha up for a long time, rotating in new testers in as current testers drop off. Selection is probably prioritized based of the application details to test a variety of clients.

[Cedri]

At the end of the month we'll just start a whole new round of QQ threads.

[Abriael]

Holy smokes, 126 pages!!!

@Abriael: Give it a rest!

Selection for closed Alpha and betas are never fair and cannot be with limited resources. And it doesn't matter how vocal you are. Only Open betas are fair.

There are a limit amount of servers and content so is no way they can stuff everyone in a tiny box in a few zones. You should at least appreciate that SE is keeping alpha up for a long time, rotating in new testers in as current testers drop off. Selection is probably prioritized based of the application details to test a variety of clients.

You know, small companies with very limited budgets operating on kickstarter manage to get in all their supporters. It's a little unrealistic to argue that Square Enix can't. Just as it's unrealistic to argue that the active community of FFXIV is so big that it's impossible for SE to fit in all those that decided to stick with the game and show their support.

Even arguing that the servers were too limited to fit everyone in, there would have been several ways to make it more fair, like a very simple turnover that closes the alpha to those that have been invited first (and had plenty time to test already) to leave the whole servers free for those that didn't have a chance yet.

It's really very simple. Feedback from those that provided support to the game up to now should have been valued more. Others that have much less resources than SE manage it with no problem. It's simply a pity that it didn't happen.