Alpha testers in to phase 1 beta?

[KiraHime]

To those of you who do get in.
You better actually play and you better actually report bugs and send in real, solid feedback.
That BS we ended up with in 14......
Can't help but make me think there were a lot of testers, that just did not want to to do their "JOB" remember that.
This is a job. Not a happy, go fun, lucky run around, with your friends, sharing e-peen stories about how you got into beta..
Find the problems, fix the problems, or FFS do NOT sign up for the beta.
There are people who are actually willing to do WORK to help make this game great..
If you are not.. Do NOT sign up..
All this legacy E-peening going around, makes me think a lot of you just want to jump into the server day one and act like you did something.

As someone who was a tester from day 1 of 1.0 Alpha, I can tell you this is most certainly not the case. We posted feedback on threads for each category gameplay, battle UI etc after each 4 hour block of play we got. And yes we posted, there were thousands of posts on each thread.

We all stated on the forums and to everyone who would listen the game was not ready for release an we assumed it was just a rush to get XIV launched before cataclysm.

In fact I still bring it up with a friend who was with me from day one how everyone in the 1.0 testing community was convinced there was another version of the game that would be released which we referred to as the 'Secret Gamescon Edition' (a XIV preview being shown at Gamescon just prior to launch), as none of us could believe that what we were playing would/could be released in the state it was in. (It was so prevalent I'm surprised it never made it to the FFXIV meme thread)

Mistakes were made, changes were made to fix it. Please don't blame a community who tried their best, especially when you have no knowledge of what they did or how they acted.