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

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Abriael, this is pathetic <_< it's been more then a month, and you're still here crying ? This is ridiculous.
I still want my invite, and looking i'm on the last turn, i doubt i'll ever get it :|| but i stopped crying from a while. Why you need this shit running again ?

[Abriael]

Abriael, this is pathetic <_< it's been more then a month, and you're still here crying ? This is ridiculous.
I still want my invite, and looking i'm on the last turn, i doubt i'll ever get it :|| but i stopped crying from a while. Why you need this shit running again ?

Some people confuse simple, balanced and rational criticism of a situation that should have been handled better with "crying", "rage" or "butthurt".

You're obviously one of those people. Then here's a hint: Not everyone that dares to criticize Square Enix is motivated by irrational feelings.

I'm simply expressing my criticism, and as far as I know, that's one of the primary reasons for which this forum even exists.

[Xenor]

I'd rather they just shut the V1 servers and opened up more Alpha servers on the hardware.

[Velhart]

I didn't.


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

That would be an extremely unfair situation if SE decided to intentionally exclude those who may have been suspended in their forums in the past.

[Starlord]

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.

I been trying to tell him that for weeks and he still won't give it a bone. -.-

[Reika]

I'd rather they just shut the V1 servers and opened up more Alpha servers on the hardware.

ARR would cause 1.0 servers to explode.

[Abriael]

I'd rather they just shut the V1 servers and opened up more Alpha servers on the hardware.

hard to say if that would be possible. We don't know if the old servers have the same hardware as the new one. Testing the game on outdated hardware could give flawed results.

I been trying to tell him that for weeks and he still won't give it a bone. -.-

Maybe because expressing criticism is one of the main purposes of this forums. So I don't see a reason why I should stop using the forum for what it's been designed to accomplish just because someone seems to be somehow offended by the existence of critical voices in the choir of "oh my god i'm exciteeeeddddd!!!!!"

[yukikaze_yanagi]

Some people confuse simple, balanced and rational criticism of a situation that should have been handled better with "crying", "rage" or "butthurt".

You're obviously one of those people. Not everyone that dares to criticize Square Enix is motivated by irrational feelings.

I'm simply expressing my criticism, and as far as I know, that's one of the primary reasons for which this forum even exists.

This is what you think of yourself. I think instead your simple, balanced and rational criticist, perpetrated from the first to the last day of alpha, at this time highly inadeguate. Is that a problem ?

[SkyeWindbinder]

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.

Abriael, I'm also a supporter of SE, and I've also been around since the early days of 1.0, but I didn't get a single invite.

It's really not the end of the world. I get that you believe that being a longtime sub should get you priority access into alpha, but not everyone agrees with that. At the very least, SE doesn't agree with that. You know, beta is just around the corner. And that's phenomenally better than alpha. Just be patient, you'll get to try the game out for yourself soon enough.

[Abriael]

This is what you think of yourself. I think instead your simple, balanced and rational criticist, perpetrated from the first to the last day of alpha, at this time highly inadeguate. Is that a problem ?

Yes, it is. Considering that I'm simply using the forum for one of the main purposes for which it has been designed and provided t us. Incidentally, I don't think InadeQuate means what you think it means. Unless you think that I'm not criticizing enough. In which case maybe I can provide an encore or ten?

It's really not the end of the world. I get that you believe that being a longtime sub should get you priority access into alpha, but not everyone agrees with that. At the very least, SE doesn't agree with that. You know, beta is just around the corner. And that's phenomenally better than alpha. Just be patient, you'll get to try the game out for yourself soon enough.

Yes. It's not the end of the world. That's why I'm not "angry", "crying" or "butthurt", but I'm instead providing criticism in a balanced and rational way in the midst of a lot of people throwing insults and trying their hardest to antagonize those that dare to be disappointed with the situation.

Very few things are the end of the world. Even ARR launching and after that crashing and burning wouldn't be the end of the world. There are plenty of games to play in the market. This doesn't mean we should provide criticism only on what would be the end of the world.

I'm sure SE doesn't agree with the fact that longtime subscribers should get priority to testing, and that's exactly why I provide my criticism. If they agreed, I and others wouldn't need to criticize at all.

In the same situation other developers simply considered and consider the feedback of their supporters better than SE did (and we're talking about developers that have but a fraction of the resources and budgets SE has). I think bringing it to their attention has value, and that's why I do it.

As for the beta being around the corner, that's great (providing that it's true, as we really don't know and won't until they release the updated roadmap), but it's simply besides the point. As a matter of fact, criticism is important to let SE know that maybe there are better ways to consider the feedback of their long time supporters than they did with the alpha.