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

[Abriael]

Even if they invited 1.0 players only there would not be room for everyone and these same people would still be crying the same song anyway. its simply not enough room for everyone regardless how SE decided to do the alpha but people cannot get that through their heads.

Playing 1.0 does not earn you the right to play alpha you got what you got for playing 1.0 already. Yoshi has stated since day one, his goal is regain players trust back to show them that his game he created is good enough to just do that and a lot of those people think so now.

Then you have the people yelling this bullshit about how they want to test the game so they can make it better, well buddy that is not what alpha is for its there just to stress the servers to the limit so they can see how far they can push the server limits.

I'm sure you have all the data necessary to demonstrate that there isn't enough room for what little was left of the active FFXIV community on the alpha test. Actually no. I'm quite sure you don't.

Reality is that FFXIV has a very small community compared to basically every other major MMORPG, so arguing that fitting everyone in, in the case no inactives were invited (as clearly stated by SE), would have been impossible is honestly ridiculous.

They didn't even need to invite everyone in at the same time so your point doens't really find any application in reality. This isn't WoW, and there aren't 9 million people to find room for.

What Yoshida says is relevant only to a point. While I'm supportive of him like the next guy, and contrary to what some here seem to think, he can make mistakes (like inviting everyone and his mother to the final event, ruining it for everyone. Rings a bell?), so his position is subject to criticism like that of any game developer.

The alpha showcases all the basic systems of the game, and they're fully open to feedback about them, no matter what the primary goal of the test is.

Baseless self-entitlement is high on this one...

It's more reality. Square Enix is one of those Japanese publishers that tried the hardest to change the way they make their games and their themes in order to please "new crowds", alienating part of their older fans. As Velhart said quite clearly, it never really worked well for them, as the rather lackluster reception of every game of the FFXIII series shows.

Marketing teaches that expansion (even radical operations like a rebranding) should always be strongly based on the solid ground of the core customer base. Alienating your core fanbase almost never works.