Quote Originally Posted by Kyri View Post
The Op has a valid question. Though it could have been asked a bit more respectfully 3 pages of "Q Q more OP!" is equally rude. Yes I know your tired of people whining about not getting in but it's not a excuse to put your troll hat on.

To the OP:
If it makes you feel better 7 yrs on ffxi didn't get me a beta or alpha into this game when it came out. I was a bit upset when it seemed my friends in xi who logged on once every 6 months seemed to get invited and I didn't but what happened is I "played" this game and all those XI friends who tried the alpha and beta were so turned off by them they wouldn't give it a chance when it came out. So maybe, I was the lucky one.

Second side note
I do feel its dumb to give betas to quit players vs actives if that's true. The majority of unactives I know not only didn't want to play anymore they wanted to play something else. F- their invites, they can stay where ever they ended up imo.
It's not dumb at all. In fact its good business.

You want to attract people that either do not play or people that used to play because you know, no matter how much they rage, the active players are still going to play and forget all about their anger once they get started. If you loose a couple, well you loose a couple because that is inevitable but the amount of players you gain from targeting the non-active audience is going to be larger creating more NEW subscriptions.