Iirc, Yoshi said that he whould be trying to get current players inside alpha asap, didnt he? So he ends up changing minds and inviting ppl that didnt care at all about it? lol...

Tbh i sent in my alpha invitation 2 days after my account was locked due to not paying it, i was worried because i though it whouldnt be considered but since i've been hearing that ppl with inactive accounts got in, i feel much better.

I'm sure that they mostly picked ppl with alot of time to test, and good pc specs (i recently bough a pc just for XIV testing, altho i cant modify my alpha registration, and at that time had an awful pc lol... Guess i'll have to wait and hopefully enter sometime soon.

Here's a old post of mine when i panic~ed about signing up with an inactive account:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...%29-successful

It didnt give any error while sending it out, so i think its up till 1 month of inactive that starts to affect it maybe.