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Um, I've noticed the "new" thing for developers to do are the founder's packs, but $12,500 for a game is just crazy. I think it's a trick to find out who's crazy and lock them in a mental institution lol.
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uhhh I was expecting something crazy to come along with the game..
like that racing game that has the actual car in the package...
but no way in hell is that list worth $12,500...
So i went to the site and had a look at what you get......
Doesn't match up to 12,000 worth of value..
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Funny thing is, development teams usually pay people to design the creatures. There really will be people who think its glorious to pay them instead to do the work.
Still though... 12.5k for something like that? I guess if you had 8 digits and burn 15k just on dinner on a normal basis....
6 months later...
"Yeah remember the Mouldy Chicken from Paths Of Exile? I designed that!"
"Paths of exile isnt that a diablo clone that had all those useless passive skills? People still play that?"
"well no... but I had a part in designing it!"
"How much did they pay you?"
"Uh.. i paid them 12,000 dollars but I got a forum title! And im in the credits!"
"..."
+1
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
lol My gosh calm down guys.
You're not wrong in thinking the things you are. I totally agree. But you're also not keeping a cool head. =p
It's obviously only for someone that wants to support the team and help move them along in the industry. Well, it seems "obvious" to me anyways. Come on now!
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How is this any different than a kickstarter?
You people are fools.
Little forum boys with their polished cyber toys: whine whine, boo-hoo, talk talk.
You should then check your government. They trow away a lot more money then 12.500 dollars and it's there duty to take care of it's citizens. Not the people who pay for such a package (They already payed a lot more taxes then you most likely did!). If the person thinks spending this much money on it is worth it then I hope for him it is. I see no reason to think the person should suffer immensely for it.
It's not an investment. It's a donation. I'd rather donate to something more meaningful.
If you are "investing" $12,500 with this company, what are the expected returns?
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true but who is to say the people who get this do not spend 10 times more on something meaningful?
It's not investment. It's donation. Do you expect ROI when donating to kickstarter? It's exactly the same thing. There is ton of epopel with a lot of disposable income that do like to throw huge sums of money on games they enjoy, it's their money and if they earned it I see why they shouldn't be able to do whatever they want with them.
Actually it does if you look at it from a development point of view, to consult, design, create and implement a creature that is pretty much what it can end up costing in the end (once labour and other costs are counted ((source for this is a interveiw with PGI, the company that makes MWO)) ). It might seem insane but them are the deals.
But that is from a developer point of view... From a player point of view i fully agree it is sort of lame, usually the devs eat that cost and only charge a fraction of the price for the pack.
Now i think it was a cool pack, but not for that price.
This have been a good conversation
Well, some people have more money then they can spend, are bored and plunge it into stuff like this.
I know a guy in EVE Online that uses like $1-2k/month to echange it into game money. (legal)
He lost a titan there, and he bought $10,000 worth of timecodes, sold them through the game forums and got himself a new titan with pimp fittings included.
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