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

[Kallera]

Don't make me laugh. At what point did I claim knowledge of the proportion of inactive accounts being selected?

At what point did I present a sound opinion as a statement of fact?

Your comment on dropping balls for SE selecting an arbitrary amount of people that you do not know except they are not you. Therefore, they are not dedicated enough or something.

[Rapture]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

I predicted this outcome back in September, so I'm personally not surprised.

[Aion]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

I predicted this outcome back in September, so I'm personally not surprised.

This is not true, actually. I have a friend who was able to apply to the Alpha without an active XIV account. She had played the game before but her XIV account was closed when she applied (and still is). I've read people like this receiving invites from several sources and I don't have any reason to believe it wouldn't be true.

please explain, Im confused

[Nix]

please explain, Im confused

There's two stages to be able to play FFXIV - When you register your FFXIV code, that makes your account active (able to buy service options etc)
But you are not allowed to play XIV until you buy an option.

Technically, everyone who has registered XIV to their service account has an active FFXIV account (since if they had an option/content ID/whatever) they'd be able to log in.

And having an active account = being able to apply for alpha


I hope this makes more sense to you, it's 7am and I've had no sleep ; ;

[Reika]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

I predicted this outcome back in September, so I'm personally not surprised.

Pretty much this. Unless you were in so much rage over the games launch that you called and had your whole FFXIV account deleted, you would always be able to log in to the account management page even if you were'nt paying for any character options. Maybe thats not exactly how they view and active account, but it sounds feesable.

And, maybe they just didn't send out all the e-mails yet.

[Aion]

Pretty much this. Unless you were in so much rage over the games launch that you called and had your whole FFXIV account deleted, you would always be able to log in to the account management page even if you were'nt paying for any character options. Maybe thats not exactly how they view and active account, but it sounds feesable.

And, maybe they just didn't send out all the e-mails yet.

Ive seen post claiming they cant apply alpha test because their account is inactive

[Nix]

My husband applied without any active characters :x

[AntonyB]

My husband applied without any active characters :x

Weird because It would not let me apply to the alpha the first time because my FFXIV account was inactive(I had played before but stopped playing). I then repaid for the service and then was able to send in an application to the alpha, weird.

[Taika]

I think what some people are missing here is that "active FINAL FANTASY XIV account" is referring to an "active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account" listed under "Select Service -> FINAL FANTASY XIV" on your Square-Enix Account Management page, which hasn't been explicitly canceled.

You don't need to have any paid options (ability to log into a character in FFXIV), to keep your FINAL FANTASY XIV service account active. Keeping an active FFXIV service account without any active characters has always been free. As long as someone had an active FINAL FANTASY XIV service account they could apply for Alpha.

This is a result of Square-Enix designing the billing system for FFXIV 1.0 to be user-friendly. You could let a month lapse, have all your character options canceled, and during a future month only need to re-activate you character option(s), without the hassle of needing to re-activate your entire FINAL FANTASY XIV service account.

Yes I believe this is the case. You didn't have to be an active player but you had to have a SE account with XIV previously activated.

This doesn't explain people not being able to apply with a closed XIV account though...

[urban]

i guess it didnt matter if your acct active or not. as long as SE have your email address they'll send you the invite just to get you to come back to FFXIV again.