The president is not allowed to have a facebook account. Wow, Obama's playing Glitch! :)
Actually I've heard that in some government & law enforcement circles you won't get hired if you have a facebook account (and people do complicated stuff like having one, and canceling it temporarily when they apply for a job, and then un-canceling it again after they got it).
Yes, RealJimBob there are certain professions that do not allow you to do certain things in your personal time because it is "unprofessional" (for lack of a better explanantion). There are also lots of people out there that simply don't have Facebook because of personal reasons. I'm sure the devs will look into other options of invites (as well as paypal payments and things) more closely as we approach opening day.
before we out an undercover cop, why don't we stop the job speculation. (oops, i see what i did there). there are plenty of valid reasons not to have an account on some web service -- from being banned by the service to boycotting them, to being cautious about personal privacy or general decorum.
Having certain service professions, such as being a mental health therapist, also makes it difficult to maintain online profiles. I've had former mental health patients/clients of mine try to add me on Facebook and search for my online profiles and it has made things sticky in the past, so sometimes I opt out of not having them in general.
I have a few friends that I only know online that I really want to play this game. However, I don't know them well enough to feel comfortable adding them to my Facebook just to invite them, as I have things on there that I don't let online friends see for the most part (last name, location, etc). Even if you have a Facebook there are people who you're not friends with that you'd like to invite, so an email invitation option would certainly be nice.
I have a Glitch facebook page (Pi Apples) which I check into on a very regular basis! lol
I work for a school district and, not too long ago, they sent us all a link to the district's new and wonderful facebook page, and guess what??? It's blocked!! LOL. (Actually... I get it. A school district has to block FB or the kids would go nuts... but the irony was not lost on me.)
I've seen a dev respond to this in the past... email invites will be available eventually... but they'd rather have players for beta that actually had to work at getting in here so they could get some good beta feed back..
Not sure what you mean by "actually had to work at getting in here". There's nothing about having a Facebook account that assures you had to work at getting in here.
And some of us got in here without a Facebook account.
Yeah, I remembered that one. But that has nothing to do with email invites, only with letting people who are currently in the game bring their friends in. Which is why those of us who don't use Facebook are expecting the privilege to be opened up to us.
so it took me a long time to dig out (forum search really is um... non-optimal), but stoot said in these forums, 9 whole months ago:
"We oughta build a thing to allow existing testers to send invites."
so yeah, ok I guess they did do that with facebook, sure, but email invites have been a long time coming!
then again, in that same thread, stoot also said:
"auctions will have more friction in the long run (listing fees and a delivery time to get the items or currants out)"
so, based on how the auctions thing just happened, the email invites should be coming any time now, eh? ;D
@WindBorn: I think the way he meant it is that you can invite anyone via email, even people who never wanted to play. The way the system works now, you technically should only be able to invite people if they already showed interest, so you're not just pulling in a bunch of people that are only vaguely interested and aren't going to devote any time to actual testing.
That being said, it still doesn't quite work like that. I mean, I joined because my best friend linked me to it, said it looked good and she was in the beta, and had me sign up my Facebook so she could invite me. So taking care of the backlog only works if you never mention Glitch to anyone.
What I would like to see is a system not unlike the Facebook one, just with emails. You sign up, put in your email and Facebook, and people can invite either from their Facebook friends or from their email. It keeps the system of backlogs of people who are interested only being invited by friends, but then people can have the option of being invited either way.
Currently, to be invited from Facebook you must already have your email address listed in the Glitch waiting list. There is nothing about using emails to invite people that would change that.
Using email to invite people who have already expressed an interest by signing up on the Glitch site is no different that using Facebook to invite people who have already expressed an interest by signing up on the Glitch site.
It simply is not true that "you can invite anyone via email, even people who never wanted to play". All we are asking is that people who have already signed up for a Glitch invite be able to join the game if they know someone playing Glitch, even if the person playing doesn't have a Facebook account.
That's what I was suggesting, lol. When people think of email invitations, they generally don't think of it that way, they think of it like "enter these three emails and we'll send them invitations", so instead of the person showing interest before you invite them, you can invite people who never even visited the site before.
If they worked it just like the way it works with Facebook, only with emails instead, I think it would work really well.