About Beta invitation

[Gramul]

WHY WHY i had to born on southern hemisphere ???

I'll travel back in time to tell my grandfather to stay on Italy .

Hey now. You live in a beautiful part of the world with tons of rare species, great food, and a fascinating history. I know you want support for the game, but take a minute to appreciate the world around you.

I mean look at this:
It practically is ancient Mor dhona.

[Skies]

WHY WHY i had to born on southern hemisphere ???

I'll travel back in time to tell my grandfather to stay on Italy .

Ma'am, you have to believe me but the northern hemisphere is not worth as much as you think. Have you seen the TEMPERATURES there?
People go out in shirts and shorts at 10C! That is... Ridiculous, that is cold enough to kill, how are those those people alive?!

Believe me, we live in the better part of the world for that alone.

[Eekiki]

When it comes to "geographical locations" I think they mean the bulk of the testers were chosen because they lived:

a.) in Japan
b.) in the western U.S.
c.) in the U.K.

This was done because that's where SE's three main offices are located, and they likely wanted to have as many people online slamming the servers during normal business hours as they possibly could.

Yes, I know it would make more sense to have people on the U.S. east coast and Germany in the alpha, since the afternoon/evenings in those places happen during normal business hours in El Segundo, CA and London. But that's not how managers think.

[Eekiki]

Being in the FFXI beta wasn't something to brag about either.

[Vilhem]

A mi me encanta sudamerica >.> Hay que regresar algun dia ;;

[Vilhem]

I agree. I visited Peru last year and it was one of the most amazing places I'd ever seen. So much more simplistic, do like.

Peru reminds me a lot of Coerthas for its mountainous regions and whatnot; Macchu Pichu, an ancient Incan settlement that sat untouched even throughout the Spanish invasion.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

It doesn't matter if you are actually testing or treating it as a demo. What is the burning need to play an unfinished game time and time over with no progress saved after a month?

I'd figure the release version would be more fun to play having not experienced it through alpha and beta.

[Gramul]

It doesn't matter if you are actually testing or treating it as a demo. What is the burning need to play an unfinished game time and time over with no progress saved after a month?

I'd figure the release version would be more fun to play having not experienced it through alpha and beta.

Because we want to test it. We want to be the people that help Square find errors and issues so the game can be fantastic on release.

[Abriael]

Because we want to test it. We want to be the people that help Square find errors and issues so the game can be fantastic on release.

Some seem to be incredibly hard headed when they try (if they try at all) to come to terms with this simple concept. Maybe because it's completely extraneous to them and they consider a testing phase just a meaningless demo of the game.

[ispano]

Because we want to test it. We want to be the people that help Square find errors and issues so the game can be fantastic on release.

This pretty much right here. It always seems like people refuse to understand as opposed to not being able to.