User blog comment:The king of war/The Beta/@comment-2219562-20120612235512/@comment-1080767-20120613011444

Well, participants of the Beta get the DLC free, not to mention that the point of the Beta is to show a non-canon, dynamic product, and that doesn't really work if you're letting in masses of players in to ruin their characters with unfinishes questlines and unbalanced gameplay that may permanently affect their profiles, not to mention that any of those players could leak information about the Beta if there is a Non-Disclosure Agreement, the more there are, the easier it is for people to target them and press them for information, and the less guilty they would feel about revealling that information, knowing that it would be done anyway. In my opinion, 0.5% is fine, and if it's not enough, they can always increase that amount. For example, in the Battlefield 3 Alpha, I received an invite on the second last day, so...