Quote Originally Posted by kimoi View Post
I'm sure it was a random lottery. They mentioned they will invite more people if these people don't come and keep the numbers they need to test. What they didn't mention is that someone is guaranteed a slot just because that someone "stuck with" the game.

Or I guess we could go conspiracy and say it's because all the people complaining about not getting in seem to be more interested in getting in just to be able to see the game early rather than actually helping test.
I doubt that it is random lottery. The questions asked as part of the Alpha application are used by SE for some sort of screening. If it is pure lottery, then only Player's ID will be just enough.