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[SkyeWindbinder]

Yoshi's a smart man. I'm quite sure that if he could do something better, he'd be doing it. He does what he does exactly because he knows that a certain degree of discontent is not unjustified.

I'm aware of that. Doesn't mean he doesn't get tired with all the whining every now and then from entitled malcontents, but he does have a lot of patience. Have to admite that.

if people didn't "protest", we wouldn't have ARR.

I was actually referring to the way you immediately went on the attack after my first post, almost as if you thought I was directly talking about you. Which if you weren't one of the people whining about not getting an alpha invite, it really shouldn't have concerned you so much...

I do pinpoint serious PR troubles, because at the moment the game isn't under too much of a spotlight. If something like this big lapse in communication happened nearer to release, when the eye of the media will be aimed at SE for every little mistake, this would be all over the net already, with the potential of doing serious damage.

lol I think you're blowing things a bit out of proportion. This is about alpha and people not being happy that they were not selected to get in. That's what it will always boil down to. I know, because I have not read one post from a person who has gotten into alpha that has "concerns with lack of communication". Abd regardless of what communication there is or isn't, there's always going to be someone who's going to complain and whine, like those who believe that being long-time players of FF14 should get them access to alpha alone.

It's not like a lot of the gaming media doesn't already look at SE with a certain amount of negative bias. Can they really afford to take chance and give them ammo on a silver platter?

The media is going to try to trash FFXIV at every given turn anyway. How alpha is done really doesn't matter. In the end, what matters is if the product is good. And trust me, Yoshi is already working on that end.