Alpha Experience?

[wayvern]

dragonwing: I've seen open beta on pet sites before, but I've not seen any open alpha, depends on the individual sites though I guess.

chosenfirefang: Currently you can lurk the contest board, enter contests and the account giveaways in hopes of getting a free alpha account. The alpha accounts sales thread isn't currently open, but when it re-opens you will be able to purchase an account if you wish:

Click here for Alpha/Beta/pre-release info

[dragonwing]

I've always thought that online games and other pet sites really don't have open alpha stages. Well, at least, not before a closed alpha, but that's usually already an open beta stage.
It comes with stress testing a server and not letting too many people come online and crash it I think. I'm not too sure though. Yeah, it really does depend on the site in the end.

Hm. Quite a topic there really.