I'll repost because I think it was lost with the other topic. As someone else explained it before: Anyone that bought XIV and played it even for a second has an active account. Unless they specifically went and deleted it from their S-E Acc page, they only had inactive characters, which means they did meet the first requirement of alpha. The bad choice of words is making the whole thing messy, though.

Also, I think that other topic might have been deleted for some other reasons, rather than just complaints