Quote Originally Posted by whoopeeragon View Post
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.