Ah! I feel like I understand better where you're coming from. A couple of quick things--well, aside from "sorry": I'm sorry you're disappointed in us.
1) Vis a vis the invite system: honestly, I'm not building it and so I don't know exactly what it can or can't do. I asked and was told that we can't close signups to members without busting privacy protection. I'll see if I can get more info for you from the folks actually building the thing.
2) I really really REALLY do believe that the timezone won't make a difference with the numbers we're talking about, but I will totally bring this up with ADT to make sure that the queue doesn't open at a time that disadvantages fans not in North America. (FWIW, we've been making a conscious effort to use UTC/GMT and to resist North-American and northern hemisphere regionalisms when we notice them. I realize that might be too little, too late, but I wanted you to know that it is something we think about.)
3) While I understand why it might feel like time was more rewarded or valued than money, that's not why we gave accounts to users who left feedback during Closed Beta, many of whom are also members. It's just that we were doing major coding work on the Archive and it was very buggy, so our users were essentially a testing group. While we're glad people are enjoying their Archive accounts , Closed Beta users are always testers first and foremost.
Ah! I feel like I understand
Ah! I feel like I understand better where you're coming from. A couple of quick things--well, aside from "sorry": I'm sorry you're disappointed in us.
1) Vis a vis the invite system: honestly, I'm not building it and so I don't know exactly what it can or can't do. I asked and was told that we can't close signups to members without busting privacy protection. I'll see if I can get more info for you from the folks actually building the thing.
2) I really really REALLY do believe that the timezone won't make a difference with the numbers we're talking about, but I will totally bring this up with ADT to make sure that the queue doesn't open at a time that disadvantages fans not in North America. (FWIW, we've been making a conscious effort to use UTC/GMT and to resist North-American and northern hemisphere regionalisms when we notice them. I realize that might be too little, too late, but I wanted you to know that it is something we think about.)
3) While I understand why it might feel like time was more rewarded or valued than money, that's not why we gave accounts to users who left feedback during Closed Beta, many of whom are also members. It's just that we were doing major coding work on the Archive and it was very buggy, so our users were essentially a testing group. While we're glad people are enjoying their Archive accounts , Closed Beta users are always testers first and foremost.