Quote Originally Posted by Picoman View Post
Haha, Reinheart.

Ive been reading threads and posts from all over the place and the common theme is that the posters didn't get in while their in-active (but with registered copy) friends did get in. Its not just from this thread.

If Reinhearts in-active uncle gets in over Reinheart himself then thats all that needs to be said.

The selection was not random in my opinion.

Im not too bothered, from what i have seen in the official videos, the active 1.0 players will have a lot of things that they loved missing and new features that are a clear move towards popular MMOs with character animations from the last decade.

I know its Alpha, an Alpha that is a frozen branch from over 2 months ago, but the decision to ignore the most active 1.0 players is strange, especially since it is only a stress test situation where people who quit are going to see an unfinished product which is the same feeling they last had with 1.0.

One last point, those legacy + active forums goers that got invited would now have moved over to the Alpha forums. So not going to hear from them.
Agreed. As I posted earlier there apparently are quite a few Legacy people that got in, but the specifics of how much they played and when would be anybodies guess. They of course have one of those 'tell me about yourself' type threads over there, and some people are tryna get an idea of how the invitations went from player responses in the thread, but even that would have to be based primarily on the honor system.

I understand, I think, SE's decision to target the not-so-actives though, although I do agree with you in that I don't think it was the best decision. For alot of the actives and forum-goers, SE has already heard our opinions and suggestions, some even regarding the ARR client (from videos we've seen). We're here quite often (or I guess often enough in SE's eyes) to have given them enough feedback for the time being, so I can get them wanting to hear from a different crowd. And perhaps they wanted to hear it before the perhaps more 'vocal' actives start testing. Personally I feel they still would have heard from the not-so-actives regardless of how they went about doing this, but they chose this path. It rubs alot of their more *currently* active playerbase the wrong way, but they know we'll get over it... heck, we got over 1.0's launch!