So how about that weather?

[Colino]

If anyone did get in, they're under NDA, rememberrrrr?

There's still plenty of ways to tell your friends in private or on personal websites. You say that like signing the NDA somehow magically makes you unable to tell your friends about it.

[OctaviusEvergreen]

If anyone did get in, they're under NDA, rememberrrrr?

Work around that by mischievously saying "I heard of someone from that area who was invited. It was not me."

On a more serious note, I too would like to know if anyone from this part of the world received an invitation.

[Catapult]

Im one in the country that you mentioned (but I didnt get invite)...is there anyone that you know get invited?

I'm not exposed to bespeak any such information to you nor would I, even if I had said information at this juncture,... be able.

[Colino]

Work around that by mischievously saying "I heard of someone from that area who was invited. It was not me."

Yup, FoF (a friend of a friend) is a typical way of doing it. Just say AFOF got an invite.

[Nix]

There's still plenty of ways to tell your friends in private or on personal websites. You say that like signing the NDA somehow magically makes you unable to tell your friends about it.

NDA does not allow you to tell friends etc about it , you're not supposed to share any information including whether you got in.~

[Chardrizard]

As long as at least one person from each of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and other surrounding nations got in, even if it doesn't include me, I will be happy, not that I have any way of knowing if this is the case... I just want to be confident that these areas aren't having unexpected issues.

/positive outlook

A friend from malaysia and then singapore got in.

[Kallivis]

People are also forgetting something.

They are complaining about people being invited who haven't played the game much and probably won't be testing much.

STOP! Logic time.

If they don't play the alpha very much, SE will be increasing the waves of invites being sent out to make up for the testers that haven't really been testing, while gathering enough statistical information from them to begin with.

That means that more people will be invited in the long run including long term players while SE also managed to gain more information.

If everybody SE invited was a current and long-standing player who is very passionate about the game, chances are they're going to be fairly active in the test. That leaves less room for more people, so the ones who are equally passionate about the game who were not invited in the first place will probably never get a chance to be invited.

As another plus, the inactive players who managed to get into ARR and see how much it changed may go "wow this is really neat" so SE is also increasing their potential playerbase by getting more people interested in the game.

[Thebard]

Alpha pffft. Only beta is worthy of my time.

[Colino]

NDA does not allow you to tell friends etc about it , you're not supposed to share any information including whether you got in.~

Doesn't mean some people don't do it anyway.

[Nix]

Doesn't mean some people don't do it anyway.

This is true, but still~