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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
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.
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If they want 100 testers and then sell 100 packs then 3-5 years later 30 of those people are no longer interested/able to play... It would make sense that they would need to pull in some new blood again.
Rather than being jealous of the players who can play for less than you, you could be otherwise happy for them, at least for game development so the community and financial resources have increased.
Anyway, a little positivity, you’ll see it’s easier to live with.
Oh, so you want to be wrong in a different way.
Intrepid saw they had either a want or a need for more testers than they had, so they got more.
Are you saying they shouldn't have? Are you saying they should have had fewer testers for server stress testing?
I'm sure that isn't what you mean, because that sounds to me like someone that wants Ashes to fail.
No, I read your thread. I just read it a second time and sure enough, I remembered all of these statements.
But hedging words like "To be clear, these are just complaints. There are already posts containing the same sentiments, so this is mainly for my own catharsis," and "But still, this feels bad. It's not unfair, yet I feel as though I've been wronged," are meaningless empty words, if you then end your post asking the devs to "make amends" to you. In bold, no less. You can't claim that you're just venting your "negative feelings", if do it in a call to action.
And you can't claim that you agree with the sentiment of crowdfunding, and then make all your complaints in this thread about how "you're treated," in exchange for your money, instead of focusing on the purpose of the donation said money was dedicated to, which is developing the game.
Unfortunately, you're too busy being offended for this thread to go anywhere. You didn't pay any attention to the question I asked you about what amends you want. Which is why I didn't bother replying again at first.
You've since answered the question to someone else however: You want (for example) to get more testing access than other players. You want other people to be punished and excluded from participation, so you can keep feeling superior.
Keep whining if that's all you can do, but you still have a chance to take a step back and recognise how conceited you're being. You're begging for praise for being the foundation of this game; except you've already been praised and rewarded plenty for your contribution, but you specifically demand infinite continued recognition, and that no one who comes after you should ever be praised on your level. It's more and more shocking the more you go into detail about what it really is you're asking for in practice.
They just paid 90$ for phase 1 Alpha 2 access, at least 15$ for 1 month of subscription (value subject to change, likely going up), and 15$ for premium content they may or may not want.
You paid 90$ for phase 1 Alpha 2 access, at least 90$ for 6 months of subscription (value subject to change, likely going up, further reducing the cost you had to pay for the Alpha itself with every additional dollar of value added to the subscription), and up to 70$ for an absolute mountain of premium content you claim you didn't want, which was your choice to accept in order to guarantee alpha access.
(Looking at these particular numbers it actually seems fairly transparent to me that the Alpha 2 access price was always marked at exactly 100$ value, discounted -10% in the bundle, in which case absolutely nothing changed between the price back then and the price now.)
So how does it make sense to diminish these new Alpha players' contribution on the basis of them having "no investment" in the game when the only "giving in to the whims of the roiling masses" that they received and you're complaining about literally had the explicit purpose of giving those masses a way to make the same investment into the game as you had made in exchange for the alpha access?
"How dare they unfairly reward those who don't have an investment in the game, by giving them an opportunity to invest in the game?" - talk about fighting windmills.
You had more risk attached to the payment, but again, that's the point of crowdfunding. The reward is that the game was made at all. That's a pretty awesome reward for the risk; no further compensation required. It just so happens that other people get to benefit from your noble sacrificial risk. If you can't tolerate that, don't crowdfund.
There's only so much FOMO prevention you can engage in before you just have to rely on people's agency. If you can't comprehend that the purpose of a crowdfunding campaign is donating for the development of something you want to succeed, and any rewards you get are equivalent to the free meal you get as "compensation" for your blood donation, then the problem is with your education and upbringing. Some things exist and you can't have them if you don't have the surplus cash; donations should be squarely on the top of that list. If you want us to eliminate all FOMO in order to protect you from yourself, civilisation would have to cease to exist.
Yeah, I know.
I'm trying to get him to realize that himself, rather than just telling him - that is far more effective.
Edit to add; this is just between me and you, right?
You bought the thing you wanted, it's here and you're hopefully enjoying it. Get on with your life.
Problem solved.
I read the post fully, and I relate a little. I never thought of it until reading your post however. ignoring all the logic people are throwing at you about the equality of the deals...
You come across as a very fragile and soft person. Just stop concerning yourself with others. Enjoy what you have.
Peace. o/
Yeah, I hear you. Sometimes you just need to scream on the street. I don't agree with your perspective, but I think it's good for the community to have a spectrum of honest reactions.