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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.
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As someone pointed out earlier the summer rewards are likely going be more rare in game than many of the kickstarter ones with how this whole situation has ended up playing out. There are well over a 1000 people with KS Royalty skin while there's going to be a most a couple hundred + KS backers who cough up more money for the Summer Majesty reskin. It seems plausible that summer items will be much more rare, and thus more exclusive, than KS items and that will matter to some people.
I am curious though, if you value all of the itemized cosmetic items at $500 combined. What is the itemized value of the lifetime sub in the $500/550 pack?
The reason the all inclusive add on is that high is because of the 1k package exclusives. The guild hall, guild cosmetics and the racial skins
To add to this as far as I can see only the bundle is discounted 20% as well, not the individual items.
I would expect the cosmetic store to include a range similar to the pricing for the Summer mounts.
I'm unhappy that you said things would be "Very reasonably priced" and then try to sell me $35 recolors of a skin for items that don't even have concept art (I say try, because currently I'm unable purchase anything - The /dashboard shop is still broken for me).
I think that everyone will agree with this statement - But you knew this going into the Summer Sale.
Why wait until the store launched?
Why tell us that things are "very reasonably" priced, when they clearly weren't going to be?
Where are these ~45,000 (70%) people?
Maybe you missed this on the last page. I don't know, but I'm going to repost it in the hopes that you read it.
Here's my largest problem:
All we really have with AOC right now is your word and our faith. I don't care what you price your things at. Charge $100 for a costume, whatever. But don't lie to me.
A lot of us have been burned by the MMO industry and are putting our faith in you to do what you said you were going to do - Deliver a solid S2P MMO with no P2W, in my case.
When you wordsmith, when you come back behind yourself and behave in ways that seem duplicitous (I'm speaking right now to the "Reasonably Priced" $450 add-on), then it makes it hard for me to believe the other, more exciting things that you're saying.
I still have hope, I'm still super hyped to see what's going to come of this, but please remember that you've got a lot of fans here that really believe in what you're doing - Please don't betray the faith that we're placing in you.
But instead, they are all purchasable as individual items. To me, this creates an issue. If I was a Summer backer and paid $1000 for some elemental skins, that a $25 KS backer could get for $75, I would be upset. To sell the items to any tier, devalues the package as a whole. Just turned those $1000 skins into $100 ones. Summer backers are getting shafted.
Originally I was worried about Summer items being priced too high to add, because with the low amount of backers, it would make them more rare than the KS items. But now that you can buy individual items, they all just seem meh. Pridestalker is only $50, plus the $25 minimum from KS, nowhere near the $500+ needed for the Dawnbreaker. So KS rarity is still solid. Value maybe not so much anymore.
Anyway, I think the add-ons should have been at the level you had from the KS and below (as to not screw the value of the higher end Summer packs - whoops too late). $75 for the Elemental skins IS reasonable, and fair to Summer backers, if it was only other Leaders of Men that could get it.
I paid for what I got on KS, and I'm still getting all those, and nobody else can. I probably won't get the Pridestalker anymore, because any lowly Explorer can get it now. Might get the racial skins, because I would have paid the $1000 to get the angel/demon if I had it at the time during KS... $75 is much more do-able. I'll have to wait until the end of the month to get paid though, so we'll see if they are still purchasable.
Once the Summer backing is over though, I think I'll ignore everything about this game until Beta. Too much drama that I don't really care about, but enough to make me salty.
PS - Can we make "very reasonable priced" an in game meme please? Like if I was gonna sell, let's say... a re-skinned phoenix for $25?
There's a forum post up that has all the stuff he's said so far, it's at
/discussion/34415/crowdfunding-q-a-gmsteven#latest
Apparently the forums eat my post if I put the full URL, so just tag that onto the URL that's up top, after the .com.
Or better yet, what @Speedlimate or @Shuzuk said.
Not a bad idea. Will let you know tomorrow.
Sounding more reasonable already.
Remember, Intrepid promises big game content patches every 3-4 months...to me this is insane and gets me very excited...if it means they need this extra revenue then so be it! Put mount skins and freehold skins for hundreds of dollars...people will buy it and I am happy about it!
Pretty much exactly what i was thinking.
You're holding onto a statement Steven made as a possibility and was never actually announced as happening. I was in discord when he announced it and he never said it was a definite thing. No wonder why companies try to limit the communication with the community, it is because of shit like this. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I would've loved to have gotten the summer bundle for free, but we aren't. It is not like Steven actually said, yes you guys are getting the summer items too.
These are cosmetic items and you don't NEED to buy them. If you cannot afford them or cannot justify buying them, then don't buy them. I find the items to be very reasonable as they are trying top balance the prices based on the tiers in which some of the items are found. EX: the elemental skins are found in the 1k backers packages and include 2 skins....70.00 for 2 skins found in a pledge that costs 1000....
If 20 people will buy a skin for $10.
If the cost to Intrepid Studios is the same regardless.
Guess which one would support the game more.
So, tomorrow.. huh?