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On 26/11 i got up really happy, ARR alpha it started and for some reason i was thinking something like "Hey i was so loyal to SE, played FFXI for 7 years, then bought the collector edition back on september 2010, maybe i got a bit luck on getting an alpha invitation". After checking my email account my happyness tourned to angry then sadness.

Then, the next day one of our favorite devs Bayohne (at least is my favorite with Camate ) posted this:

Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne
Greetings everyone,

I know the alpha tester selection process is a hot topic, and while I cannot disclose the selection process, I do want to pass on some additional details to help you better understand the situation. To ensure a broad scope of testing for the Alpha Test, we did accept users with specific types of machines, setups, connection types, ISPs, geographical locations and other configurations that we need to test that may, or may not, meet every requirement on the application. Alpha is an important first step for testing and we need to make sure we have a wide breadth of users testing it.

We appreciate your understanding, and we look forward to further expanding our selection in the future. In fact, there are a few Yoshida posts that we're working on today that go into further detail on this.
Geographical locations, this was my first problem, I can't remember where it says that alpha went only for NA, EU and JP people, i'm from south america, so i'm not there, starting to worry about if i'll be getting an invite or not, but since my game it's from NA, maybe i fit it there, who knows.

Later, Yoshida told us that the next monday there will be more invitations, so i started to look for it. Same as 26/11 on 3/12 got up really happy looking for my email, nothing there, same feelings. But hey, now two people from south america got to play alpha, so there is a chance to get some invite. Then 5/12 come like 3/12 nothing there, 7/12, same.

One of the guy who got to play alpha told me how he pay the game using crysta (people from south america can't pay with crysta), so yes, he use a fake NA adress, same with other people who got invitation. I know 10 people of my country playing the game, and only 2 got the invitation, and yes, those two who got to play are using a fake adress. After i realized this all my hope on getting something went a bit loss but there was a bit of it, but well, today is the last day and nothing from SE got on my email.

Note that i'm not angry with my friends that using fake adress got to play alpha and also more important (at least for me), being able to pay using Crysta.

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Now that alpha is ending, i'm totally fine to not being invited, but i'm worrying about not getting a spot on Closed Beta, my question to devs is if there will be a restrict to geographical locations again?


Thank you and sorry if the text is a bit long.