Will Alpha 2.0 let you play with friends in your friends list?

I am unsure what the status of that is. The last I heard, and this was just the intention, I don't know if it's in there, is you will be able to see the specific instances, and if your friends are in an instance, those will be highlighted, and you'll be able to choose instances. So you'll be able to coordinate with your friends to join the same instance. That was the intention. I don't know if that's the reality yet.

So sometimes stuff like that can be a couple patches in.

Exactly. Different teams, I mean, imagine it, ten different teams building ten different things, and the seven of them that all actually work when it's time to come out, those can be in the first release, and you'll see the others come online as long as they don't break the game.