Have you gotten any messages from people asking you to manually add them to 2.0?
TL;DRTesters were chosen from Arena Commander play and corroborated Issue Council bug reports, streamers get no special priority, and access can't be bought, because this phase is for fixing the game rather than promoting it.
I have gotten roughly 7,000 messages. Guys, one of the things we were very specific about for this is the list was generated by DevOps or LiveOps in Austin based on folks playing Arena Commander, folks doing bug reports for 1.3 through the Issue Council. They can't just be spamming them either, they have to be corroborated helpful ones.
I've heard some people objecting that streamers get priority. May I remind everybody that streamers actually play the game a lot, so the data they auto-generate is considerable.
Well, based on the number of streamers who have been messaging me talking about how we've ruined their lives, they don't get priority. We would love to give it to everybody, but there's not a special exception for streamers. There's not a special exception for anyone else. It's folks who help test right now. And it's going to stay that way. It sucks. I know everybody wants to stream it and share it and show all the new stuff right now. I would love for that to be possible. But I would rather be working on the game that sticks to its guns for doing this right rather than doing it for publicity. But there are a couple of streamers who are also big bug dudes. And there are folks out there streaming. And there'll be more shortly. You can't buy your way into the PTU. It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a streamer to get into 2.0 PTU. We love our streamers. You guys do an amazing job promoting the game, but this is not the part where we need to promote it. This is where we need to fix it.