Your concerns about invitations

Hi guys,

I'm starting a new thread so that you'll actually see this post - the other thread is getting pretty long.

I wanted to make a few points:

a) Yes, it will change to five minutes per user very soon. It just had to finish its queue of twenty minute people first.

b) We're not just inviting people with zero posts. Forum users do stand a much better chance of getting in, it's just that they are outnumbered by other fans who signed up and haven't posted. It is fair for the other guys to get in too - many of them do read the forums (even when not logged in), and it would really suck to exclude them just because they haven't discussed the game with us yet.

c) The rate of people we're inviting is to keep up with our server and support scaling. We'll do what we can to get as many people as possible on, but it's going to be a slow ramp up until thousands of people have access.

d) There are other ways to get into the Beta! We'll be giving out lots of keys to fansites, and maybe posting them on places like Facebook and Twitter periodically. Keep an eye out and you may get lucky :)

[Key gone already] - I'm sure this key will go within seconds :)


Edit: We're investigating why it hasn't switched over to five minute intervals yet. At worst, the fix for that will be tomorrow (it's getting late here).

This is really owning our servers, as you can probably see...

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F5ing on your profile for the past 15 minutes finally paid off, thanks!!!

Awesome, man.