I'm not in the beta nor have I preordered (probably won't even buy, but we'll see), but if I recall correctly, you had to pre-order by a certain date to get into the current round of beta testing....which from what I'm to understand, isn't fun anyway.
However, and I may be wrong, I recall hearing that there would be a second round of beta-entry for preordering customers at a later date. If that's still in the cards, then you'd get into that round of it.
Again, I'm trying to recall from memory. It could be a bit wrong.