Alpha Tester Acceptance Mails Heading Out!

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[Starlord]

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Better than white . White blinded me MY EYES!

[Dragonheart]

i remember he said in an interview that beta will not be out before january 2013 uhm..

[Starlord]

i remember he said in an interview that beta will not be out before january 2013 uhm..

Alpha starts within the next 7 days, Alpha is a very short process, 1 month is usually an Alpha max limit. Then Beta comes shortly thereafter. October 30th till November 30th then Beta at some point in December. Depends how SE handles the time frame on alpha/beta tests. Alpha can be wrapped up as little as 2 weeks if all goes well. Beta is what takes the absolute longest ( anywhere from 1-4/5 months) again depends on how beta is coming along will determine the length of the beta.

These are all rough estimates on how I think it's going to go.

[Akira_Tenshi]

The "open beta" was said to start in January.

[GinTama]

i guess alpha wil start for jp monday next week, maybe even this week but doubt it.
since yoshida said alpha would be "mostly" only server stress testing it should not take longer than a month.
One week will be jp only is my guess, after that others should slowly get invites too.
Beta will probably start right after alpha since they dont want to waste time (its a company) i guess and of november beta will start.

I could imagine a release in Feb. 2013

[Elexia]

There's 2 phases for Japan, and given that it will take a month my bet is NA/EU will be last 1 1/2 of it. They now NA players will get pissy even though it's an alpha, so I wouldn't doubt they'd rather get all the major snags out the way with the local playerbase first even if it takes most of the time, since it is just testing and not really playing the game like some people take alpha and betas.

[Hulan]

There's 2 phases for Japan, and given that it will take a month my bet is NA/EU will be last 1 1/2 of it.

Probably about right, certainly it won't be shorter than 9 days. Since it's 2 phases, there needs to be at least some downtime between them, and getting a large enough sample will take at least 3-4 days per phase.

[Lirion]

I'm guessing week 1 is phase 1, week 2 is phase 2 and so on.

[Elexia]

I'm guessing week 1 is phase 1, week 2 is phase 2 and so on.

That'd be pretty quick test phases lol, especially to throw in fixes/updates/restructuring etc.