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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.

"hey guys, I never play FF XIV but I got to their alpha, its so neat now! now you can--"

-xxx banned from ARR alpha test-