Zarhym explained on twitter why the Alpha is taking so long to start.
@Tryvia Because we’re not ready to start inviting the public yet. Doing extra polish on the first few zones & will get a build going soon.
— Zarhym (@CM_Zarhym) May 15, 2014
@Tryvia We had hoped to start inviting people sooner. We knew our internal alpha build would be datamined & wanted to let people know why.
— Zarhym (@CM_Zarhym) May 15, 2014
@Nerador_EU @Tryvia You underestimate how hard it is to announce set dates for tests. Doubt people would agree on preferring radio silence.
— Zarhym (@CM_Zarhym) May 15, 2014
@Borgratz @Tryvia No, but there have been some quest flow revamps and such we wanted to get done before people started really digging in.
— Zarhym (@CM_Zarhym) May 16, 2014
So it seems that the Alpha related blog posts have been mostly to explain what’s going on, to not leave players in the dark when sites like MMO-Champion datamined the information from the Alpha servers.
At the same time the Alpha still hasn’t begun because there’s still work to be done in the zones as the developers weren’t have with how some quest chains were working out. So for now we will just have to continue being patient!