Quote Originally Posted by Mrfox0707 View Post
The tough people to impress are the one week quitters. Because those people are biased towards FFxiv and would have never given it a second chance. SE knows if they can impress them then they have won the day.
While this may be true, if you worked for SE and wanted to make sure you impressed these people to come back, would you give them priority to participate in the Alpha with all the lacking features an Alpha will inevitably have?

...and yes, I am a little bitter, mostly because I suspect Alpha testers will get first dibs on participating in Beta.