The main takeaways from the article are as follows:
- We are currently in phase three of the alpha which will end December 2.
- The final alpha phase begins December 3. Thousands of new applicants are expected to be invited to join.
- Approximately 1/4 Japanese applicants, 1/6 North American applicants, and 1/3 European applicants have been accepted so far.
- Phase four will see the addition of a third world for alpha testing and will involve stress tests for server mergers. New alpha testers are encouraged to join the new server (existing servers are Chocobo and Moogle).
- Each world is designed to allow up to 5,000 simultaneous connections.
- A Realm Reborn features approximately 40 areas, each of which can support approximately 1,000 active players at a time.
- Alpha is scheduled to end in the middle of December. They may leave the servers up for alpha testers to continue to mess around with existing content.
There's some other more technical tidbits in there, but mostly it just sounds like more good news.
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