When does the Alpha Test end?

[Jynx]

Sounds like SE just has the world merge test to do before they call the servers stable enough to start work on Beta. I expect Beta in early 2013 considering they said that they have plans to possibly extend the Alpha (Just for giggles) to the end of the year meaning they don't have plans for Beta in 2012.

[KiriA500]

Sounds like SE just has the world merge test to do before they call the servers stable enough to start work on Beta. I expect Beta in early 2013 considering they said that they have plans to possibly extend the Alpha (Just for giggles) to the end of the year meaning they don't have plans for Beta in 2012.

It was confirmed during the last Live Letter that the Beta test starts at the end of January/beginning of February.

[Elexia]

It was confirmed during the last Live Letter that the Beta test starts at the end of January/beginning of February.

Which is March or April translated to normal people language.

[KiriA500]

Which is March or April translated to normal people language.

By "normal people" do you mean "angsty children who would actually die if they weren't cynical buttholes all the time?" It sounds like that's what you said.

I'm still going to go with what was said during the Live Letter.

[Twiddle]

Which is March or April translated to normal people language.

This time, i don't think they afford the Tanaka time line of tomorrow meaning 6 weeks down the road. SE and Yoshi are backs against the wall at current. So I am thinking that they will stick to the time frame set in order to get done what's needed to get done...

EDIT: @Zenaku
Don't know about that, i hope SE does not fall victim to fan service and keeps looking at the big picture.. SE should not run alpha longer then they need it to run. Simple as that!

[Zenaku]

Alpha been done on the last week of JP testing before the NA/EU join. Right now it just to stop the bitching that come from the NA/EU side they going to keep the alpha to end of the month and invite more players to stop people from crying.

[Mug]

Alpha been done on the last week of JP testing before the NA/EU join. Right now it just to stop the bitching that come from the NA/EU side they going to keep the alpha to end of the month and invite more players to stop people from crying.

Source?

As far as I know, they're currently in phase 3 out of 4.

[KiriA500]

Source?

As far as I know, they're currently in phase 3 out of 4.

There is no source. That's just passive aggressive butthurt.

Square-Enix said they have enough information to roll into beta, but that doesn't mean phase 3 and 4 are just there to "stop people from crying."

Fun fact: There are Japanese players who didn't get into the Alpha test too.

[Twiddle]

Source?

As far as I know, they're currently in phase 3 out of 4.

Extension of 3 and introduction of 4 have the soul purpose of "stop people from crying." As KiriA500 said they have what they needed from the alpha...

[KiriA500]

Extension of 3 and introduction of 4 have the soul purpose of "stop people from crying." As KiriA500 said they have what they needed from the alpha...

Phase 3 and 4 are simply just stress tests to see how the servers handle people from outside of Japan. Nowhere in that implies they set them up for the sake of shutting us up.