Global Alpha Test Start Date

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There are posts on the fansite forums from people who said they've gotten in without an active account. There were also posts on these forums from people who said they applied without having any active characters at the time (thus not having an active account).

It was speculated that the wording on the application site didn't in fact mean that people had to be playing at the time to be qualified to apply or receive an invite but rather that they had to have an XIV account registered on their SE account (which means that they at least have played the game in the past).

Edit: Personally I don't really think current XIV players would be somehow better qualified to (stress) test ARR and I'm sure anyone who went through the trouble of filling the test application can't be completely unmotivated to do the testing.