Quoting myself here to emphasize the convolution of this process. If some of you want to be dicks and play the whole "You weren't cool enough/too lazy to look" card, be my guest. For all the greatness some are supposedly claiming, there's some giant bonehead moves coming from the fans and the people behind the game. Spare me the whole schtick on testing. You don't need 500k+ people for the little things ideally stomped out by in-house groups and closed betas pre-NDA releases. We're all being viral marketing ponies. I just find it strange some are taking the extra step of defending the exclusionary method of their actions since I always thought the point of MMOs was to have more people around to play with.
Not everyone combs giant threads and it's pretty fucking dumb to expect and demand people do so. This post is the last I believe to have been linked offering keys. And hey, I don't fault the thread for mentioning keys now and then. Yet, enter another thread focused more on an actual beta event, a thread started after many of those links ended. I knew enough to know pre-orders got in. Shame on me for being dirty casual enough to be wondering if there might still be openings, or someone else for that matter, just for shit to devolve into people wondering anyone should ever expect a chance to try a game, no a genre, rooted in a metric fuckton of time investment.
/imad or whatever you wanna call me for not being on ANet's nuts about the game.