Dev's You better answer!

[Abriael]

OMG Your stupid.

And you don't know the difference between "you're" and "your".

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.

May want to know something about business before stating that something is good or bad business.

If someone ditched an incomplete game, you don't invite him to experience a massively incomplete incarnation of a new game.

Inviting inactive accounts to an early alpha testing doesn't make the slightest sense, as the advertising power of the current alpha is very limited, and is most likely to actually have the opposite effect on people used to complete games. That kind of accounts is suitable to be invited during a late beta, when most elements are already in place.

This, of course, without mentioning the fact that explicitly stating a rule and then not honoring it is a rather large marketing blunder.