February 6th, 2024 Livestream Q&A: Why do people that signed up for closed alpha have to sign up for closed beta?

February 6th, 2024 Livestream

Q&A: Why do people that signed up for closed alpha have to sign up for closed beta?

https://youtu.be/j3XVTg7MA7c

This question was possibly duplicated with a more recent answer: February 9th, 2024 Video Q&A: If I signed up for the closed alpha, why do I have to sign up again? https://youtube.com/embed/TSyQr113OkU?autoplay=1&start=250&end=261

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, and another question was like for people people that had signed up for the close Alpha before why do they have to sign up again so there's a couple of reasons for that one reason is because we want to you know people that played Co Alpha that was years ago that was a long time ago so like there's a there's a lot of people that sign up for closed Alpha that probably don't even care about this game anymore even possibly they have kids now they have kids now maybe their kids want to play the game I don't know, no but the main the main reason though is because of gdpr because when you sign up for the closed Alpha we we can't we are not allowed to like retain that data, because it's been so long since that happened so like we don't have that data essentially, because that's just how it is also due to gbpr, whenever you collect information from people like personal information like such as emails, you need to disclose beforehand what you're going to use that information for and I don't think we I don't gdpr didn't wait did no gdpr did exist when we had the closed Alpha but it was like we disclosed that like we're going to use your signup for the closed Alpha which means we can't use that for anything else or if it was a newsletter or something like that- I don't remember but essentially yeah we can't we can't use th that those sign us anywh anyways even if we had them, and and I think it's also fair that if we ask people to sign up for a close beta where they do provide us you know our emails and and whatnot then I think it's reasonable for us to be like upfront about the fact that like this is just we're just you collecting this bit of information for the signups so we're not sharing any of that information with any third parties this is solely you know managed by us, and it's solely for the closed out closed beta so we're not going to use it to to sell it to, to U you know eBay for highest bidder, unless no I'm just kidding, so so that's the main reason why why we do a second round of signups is because we want to like startes with the signups and then just use the signups for that stuff so yeah