SE is always SE... Rage inside... :/

[whoopeeragon]

Reading through some responses, I'm not even sure if people know whether alpha is for testing or playing....

[Aion]

Reading through some responses, I'm not even sure if people know whether alpha is for testing or playing....

did SE know that whom they sent invite even care about playing ARR?

[whoopeeragon]

did SE know that whom they sent invite even care about playing ARR?

That's exactly it. SE are not mind-readers. They can't know whether the person who filled out the application form did it for the lols or not. They can't know whether someone who went inactive doesn't care about ARR or not - they could simply have disliked 1.0 enough but very interested in what ARR has to offer. Doesn't make them any less a fan, because if you really do hate a game, why play it? So inactive players does not necessarily mean they are not interested.

SE is in a tough spot, because they have to choose between whether to conform to one segment of their POTENTIAL customerbase or not. In this case, I think they went with the better choice, to not discriminate against anyone asides from the condition that they fill in the alpha application and meet the requirements as such.

[Aion]

That's exactly it. SE are not mind-readers. They can't know whether the person who filled out the application form did it for the lols or not. They can't know whether someone who went inactive doesn't care about ARR or not - they could simply have disliked 1.0 enough but very interested in what ARR has to offer. Doesn't make them any less a fan, because if you really do hate a game, why play it? So inactive players does not necessarily mean they are not interested.

SE is in a tough spot, because they have to choose between whether to conform to one segment of their POTENTIAL customerbase or not. In this case, I think they went with the better choice, to not discriminate against anyone asides from the condition that they fill in the alpha application and meet the requirements as such.

but they able to apply with inactive account.... is it working as intended?

[whoopeeragon]

but they able to apply with inactive account.... is it working as intended?

In which case, it may have been a glitch, because I had one friend who tried to apply with an inactive account, but the alpha registration page rejected him, or so he said. The fact that Dragonheart's friend managed to apply with an inactive account puzzles me.

[Colino]

Reading through some responses, I'm not even sure if people know whether alpha is for testing or playing....

Either way, inactive accounts should not have had some sort of magical priority.

As far as we know release could be as long as 6 months (or more!) away. How the hell do they think they can keep these people interested for that long when they didn't even bother to play the original?

If anything stress tests should be done by people who are going to end up buying the game anyway since any hiccups/glitches/crashes during testing is unlikely to change their minds. I wouldn't care if the server crashed every 2 minutes in alpha, I'm still playing ARR.

You can't really say the same about someone who's on the fence about it or simply not interested at all.

[AntonyB]

You needed an active FFXIV account to be able to apply. Prob reactivated recently to be able to apply.

[Dragonheart]

You needed an active FFXIV account to be able to apply. Prob reactivated recently to be able to apply.

No, they just applied with the inactive account, without any problem, just like we did with the active account. Read what i was thinking in my previuous post.

[AntonyB]

No, they just applied with the inactive account, without any problem, just like we did with the active account. Read what i was thinking in my previuous post.

My account was inactive when It was first announced and It was refused because I did not have an active FFXIV account. I came back to the game 2 months before close and applied then. You must be getting trolled because you was unable to apply unless your account was paid for.

[Niqote]

Nothing wrong with trying to get back potential customers. I didn't get one but thems the breaks. It's just a stress test...