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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
Questions (reset, monster tokens, paywall, battle grounds, linux, mount)
Hello,
I saw a few videos on YouTube about your game, it looks interesting. I would like to know a few things before supporting you (I got burned by a lot of MMORPGs, many of them boasting how not-P2W they were, which technically might be true, but there were so high grind/paywalls that realistically they were P2W or even P2P).
1) Will there be some kind of reset/respec in terms of traits or possibly even secondary class? If so, will it be easily obtained through in-game currency (say to 1 hour of gameplay without using real money)?
2) I saw you have some "monster tokens" and it seems they are very valuable - given more the more you pay. Does it mean it will be only available through $$$? Even though it rewards only cosmetics, it is still looking like locking content/gameplay behind real money payments, will it be the case? Or if it will be obtainable in-game, how much grind are we talking? Less grind than actual length of locked gameplay, same time or much more grind for short time of locked gameplay (effectively paywall)?
3) Will there be any locked content/gameplay (regardless of reward type, not counting skins) accessible only (or effectively) via real money?
4) Will there be some kind of "battle grounds" like in WoW? I am not talking arenas (very few players without respawning), but rather instanced PvP where two groups of same size (e.g. 8vs8) are doing objectives and after death there is a respawn.
5) I know only release platform is Windows, but are you planning Linux support (are you using multiplatform engine [I am guessing yes], libraries and so on)? Or at least will you support your game to run (reasonably well) in Wine?
6) After how much playtime can player (without paying more real money) obtain mount or some faster traveling method (talking first character – no saved money from high levels)? I hope it’s fairly early, I really hated many MMORPGs forcing players to slowly run for minutes, just holding one key down – and only after tens of hours it got better, because mounts were limited by level/money.
As you can see, I really hate when players can throw more money at pay2play game and get more stuff/access more places (even if it is not technically P2W). I would probably get over paid mounts/pets if there is enough selection of "free" ones (it's really not free, if one pays subscription fee), but I would hate to see any gameplay being locked behind paywall.
PS: If you are not a dev then please backup your answers with links to sources from devs.
I saw a few videos on YouTube about your game, it looks interesting. I would like to know a few things before supporting you (I got burned by a lot of MMORPGs, many of them boasting how not-P2W they were, which technically might be true, but there were so high grind/paywalls that realistically they were P2W or even P2P).
1) Will there be some kind of reset/respec in terms of traits or possibly even secondary class? If so, will it be easily obtained through in-game currency (say to 1 hour of gameplay without using real money)?
2) I saw you have some "monster tokens" and it seems they are very valuable - given more the more you pay. Does it mean it will be only available through $$$? Even though it rewards only cosmetics, it is still looking like locking content/gameplay behind real money payments, will it be the case? Or if it will be obtainable in-game, how much grind are we talking? Less grind than actual length of locked gameplay, same time or much more grind for short time of locked gameplay (effectively paywall)?
3) Will there be any locked content/gameplay (regardless of reward type, not counting skins) accessible only (or effectively) via real money?
4) Will there be some kind of "battle grounds" like in WoW? I am not talking arenas (very few players without respawning), but rather instanced PvP where two groups of same size (e.g. 8vs8) are doing objectives and after death there is a respawn.
5) I know only release platform is Windows, but are you planning Linux support (are you using multiplatform engine [I am guessing yes], libraries and so on)? Or at least will you support your game to run (reasonably well) in Wine?
6) After how much playtime can player (without paying more real money) obtain mount or some faster traveling method (talking first character – no saved money from high levels)? I hope it’s fairly early, I really hated many MMORPGs forcing players to slowly run for minutes, just holding one key down – and only after tens of hours it got better, because mounts were limited by level/money.
As you can see, I really hate when players can throw more money at pay2play game and get more stuff/access more places (even if it is not technically P2W). I would probably get over paid mounts/pets if there is enough selection of "free" ones (it's really not free, if one pays subscription fee), but I would hate to see any gameplay being locked behind paywall.
PS: If you are not a dev then please backup your answers with links to sources from devs.
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"– Land Mounts will first be obtained through an early quest that is present for players within the starting areas."
<a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/i-have-a-beef-re-twitch-live-stream-52417-kickstarter-mounts/page/4/#post-29035" target="_blank">From Steven's post</a>
"– Land Mounts will first be obtained through an early quest that is present for players within the starting areas."
<a href="https://www.ashesofcreation.com/forums/topic/i-have-a-beef-re-twitch-live-stream-52417-kickstarter-mounts/page/4/#post-29035" target="_blank">From Steven's post here </a>
You can watch them on Twitch or on the YouTube channel of Ashes of Creation.
I'm not trying to be unfriendly, but it's just a good source of information.
2. monster tokens are dropped from bosses apparently
3.not counting skins? definitely not.
4.yes, I expect it.
5.no news of that yet. they'll prolly work on it if they have enough demand.
6. answered above.
You can catch up on all previous Q&As over the kickstarter period above ;)
It covers pretty much everything planned that can be divulged at this stage or Pre Alpha.