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

[Shougun]

I'm not whining because i didn't receive the alpha invitation, but a lot of my friend that have quit the game AFTER THE FIRST MONTH FROM THE RELEASE GOT IT! And me (and others of course) supporting the game and paying for the crappy 1.0, didn't receive it.

Only who had an active FFXIV account was supposed to get the invitation right?

Now tell me dear SE, for the love of god WHY???

It was a kind of application site bug? If this was wanted? Just need clarification about this.

I've got two points:

1. Who else to better test the game then those who didn't play or have patience to understand it (sarcasm - noob choices if they picked all the people who left early and hardly played).

2. Perhaps they dont want to disappoint us with server crash tests and want to invite us to the beta where we can actually test gameplay elements rather then "EVERYONE JUMP" *server crashes*.

[Dagr81]

i would figure it was just random
legacy or not, but i guess the question is did they include people that have not played since before YP took charge
only one that can answer this question is well SE (most likely will not say) logic stand point why would they include people that really drop the game like a back of shit?

but what do i know i am just some random guy
GL to you who got in and those that didn't round 2 wil be soon

[EnkiOro]

And people still wonder why the official forums are mocked? Good lord. It'd be amazing to see one day without a community meltdown. It's getting to the point where people are imagining conspiracies of why they were not picked up.

To the people that weren't picked up, fill your time with whatever you had planned to do until you were picked up, and to those who were picked up, please work your best to ensure 2.0 is a success.

[oddyneo]

Why don`t SE just invite everyone? xD And test the servers right away. xD
That would be interesting.

[Reinheart]

How was my brother in law able to get in alpha......... orz he never played XIV and only reason he applied for alpha was because my wife told him about it and I showed him the awesome videos/images of ARR... at least give alpha's to those that have played the game so they can get good feedbacks that knows how 1.0 was... orz

[Kallera]

How was my brother in law able to get in alpha......... orz he never played XIV and only reason he applied for alpha was because my wife told him about it and I showed him the awesome videos/images of ARR... at least give alpha's to those that have played the game so they can get good feedbacks that knows how 1.0 was... orz

No good deed goes unpunished, Reinheart.

[Reinheart]

No good deed goes unpunished, Reinheart.

Weird part is I thought they needed active XIV account... lol

EDIT: nvm checked again and apparently he does have account he created and played for 1st month then he stopped playing since his friends played other games.

[Tiago]

What's sad is that i did the registration for Alpha while i had a shizzy pc, Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz + Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS (128 dedicated and 768 shared with RAM + 3GB RAM.... last friday i bough a PC thinking i was going to enter Alpha to test if my PC can run it smoothy and wasnt picked for it :\
Just hope i get in soon so i can test my new machine :/

[RudyFails]

he never played XIV

When was it that we decided how SE should choose it's Alpha members? I don't believe we'd be dumb enough to think they're picking people all willy nilly, who's selection would end up being detrimental to them. But I do believe we may just be selfish enough to care more about what benefits us over them, all while claiming the people who were selected are inferior to us, based solely on that fact that they aren't us.

[Reinheart]

When was it that we decided how SE should choose it's Alpha members? I don't believe we'd be dumb enough to think they're picking people all willy nilly, who's selection would end up being detrimental to them. But I do believe we may just be selfish enough to care more about what benefits us over them, all while claiming the people who were selected are inferior to us, based solely on that fact that they aren't us.

Only reason I brought that up was under FFXIV Alpha tester requirements we got this

http://entry.ffxiv.com/alpha/index_na.html

Application Requirements
- Must currently have an active FINAL FANTASY XIV account
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be willing to participate actively and submit bug reports in at least one of the following languages: Japanese, English, French, German
- Must have a PC that meets the minimum system requirements of the game

But like I mentioned in the follow up post after checking with my wife apparently he did have an account he did activate the 1st month when the game came out and quit right after... so he does meet the requirements.