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

[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.