"Welcome, username, alpha access is currently restricted..."

We’re aware of an issue where some people are getting the “alpha is restricted” error message and working on a fix as a matter of urgency. We’re extremely sorry for the inconvenience!

No worries, its what an alpha is for.

Glad its being worked on, I am excited to start playing Alpha:)

We’re in the process of building a hotfix internally.

 
If the QA process goes well, we’ll be deploying it. It will necessitate a small download.

The hotfix has been deployed.