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ArcheAge: Founder's Packs Available NOW
SBFord
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Trion Worlds has gotten busy and put up the order site for ArcheAge Founder's Packs. All packs are available now. Check the information below to find just the right pack to suit your needs.
Details on the Founders Packs:
ARCHEUM - $149.99 - BUY NOW<Link>
Alpha & Beta Access
11,250 Credits ($100 Value)
4-Day Patron Head Start
Title: "Trailblazer"
90-Day Patron Status
Daru Troves
10 Evenstones
10 Hereafter Stones
Glass Phoenix Glider
Desert Assassin Platemail
Reagents to put your own crest in-game
10 Pet Healing Potions
Founder's CloakGOLD - $99.99 - BUY NOW<Link>
Beta Access
7,500 Credits ($50 Value)
4-Day Patron Head Start
Title: "Traveler"
60-Day Patron Status
10 Evenstones
10 Hereafter Stones
Glass Phoenix Glider
Desert Assassin PlatemailSILVER - $49.99 - BUY NOW<Link>
Beta Access
2,500 Credits ($17 Value)
4-Day Patron Head Start
Title: "Founder"
30-Day Patron Status
Experimental Glider
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This is pandering to the give it to me now culture.
You don't need to leave mmo's my friend, just play the games that are more than 6 to 12 months old.
Try out Rift, SWTOR, Neverwinter, PS2, and TERA.
I know it's tempting to grab the latest and greatest game, but find some inner patience and go back and enjoy those older titles, they are still fun.
$150 B2P now.
$99 or $50 B2P in June.
F2P at release.
Please, someone help me understand: why on earth would anybody buy a $99 or $50 pack now? Why not wait until the initial Alpha Hype dies and get honest opinions on the state of the game first?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Hmm 150 bucks for:
Da shat? Screw that. I can clearly see Trion doesn't want me playing AA long term. Can you at least opt in for a sub without the F2P bloat? Must dig deeper....
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Pretty expensive.
When I saw the thread I was expecting it to be similar to Landmark with $100 and $60 giving alpha access and $20 giving beta access. Well.. At the very least they are giving cash shop currency.. Sony gave squat AND added the shop in during alpha!.
I reckon I will pass no matter how much I want to play. Just to expensive.
And landmark will be more then a dig and build it will have exploration and mobs to fight and skills etc. quit hating on Landmark DMKano
Yeah 150 a bit steep but form what I've played in the russian version once I can afford I will opt in.
Psssh No Thanks! would rather wait til it fully releases! Money better spent on a sub else where...nice try Trion!
Playing: Darkfall Unholy Wars & ArcheAge(Alpha)
Backed: Shards Online, Camelot Unchained
Loved: Vanilla WoW,UO,Shadowbane,EQ,DAoC,Asheron's Call(Darktide)
For 50 you get an "experimental glider". Experimental to me sounds like you just might crash in to the side of a mountain. We have yet to work out all the kinks.
I feel if I started playing now I would be burnt out on the game when it officially launches.
(-_-)
I was naming the things I was hoping not to see in TW's version of AA thinking that if they offered a subscription, I could possibly avoid the F2P experience. But since they polluted all their packages with F2P crap, then it goes without saying that AA is another misguided attempt to cash in rather than offer those who would pay a subscription a unburdened alternative to playing F2P free. Why should I (if I choose to sub) also be shouldered with maintaining a in-game cash balance + enticements from RNG boxes + gimp crafting (by not buying everstones)? These are things a F2P player should be burdened with, not a player paying a sub.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Don't forget that you can get +3 to all stats for $150.
Not too important though.
Just a little advice to people, DO NOT buy it now. Wait for the hype to settle down and find out the release date first before actually buying this expensive packs. They paid a bunch of streamers good money to stream the game to build up hype and then put this out right after.
Don't be blinded by the hype, the game is very average. Wait for a release date to buy it. Or better yet, don't spend any money at all and wait for release.
Hmm at those prices they aren't really attracting the F2P crowd...but for people that intend to subscribe or put a lot of money into it anyway it could be worth it. Hey... it worked for SOE's EQNL
Me? I hate buying a pack with a bunch of stuff with an unknown value. Buyers remorse has taught me to not preorder just anything.
Are you trying to "rush" people to buy them? Don't worry, if they sell out of slots (which they won't) they will open up some more. No one will say no to extra cash, especially not Trion.
They already said they'll offer out the $150 packs without the slots. So unless you really, really want to pay $150 for a alpha slot, I don't see the rush. Taken from their FAQ:
If I purchase an Archeum Founder’s Pack, do I get an immediate invite to Alpha?
Yes – while supplies last! Our first Archeum Founder’s Packs grant you an instant invitation to download and play in our live Alpha. If you are new to Alpha testing an MMO, please check out the Alpha-related questions in this FAQ!
Is there a limit on the number of Alpha invites available?
Yes. Alpha is running on a fixed amount of testing hardware. We may remove Alpha Access from the Archeum Founder’s Packs feature list at some point in the future.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
(-_-)
Meh only $149. I played the RU for some time and really enjoyed it.
Got my order in.
Downloading it now.
Lets see your Battle Stations /r/battlestations
Battle Station
Awesome. More games that follow the "pay to test" model.
Let me throw my money at you to play a sub-par game to help test it.
as i said on a earlier post of this subject, i will buy the silver pack just so i have guarantee access to beta, i can wait since i will be playing wildstar on june 3rd, but if everything goes well in beta, might drop WS for AA
With 90 Days Patron Time and Credits.. Its not a bad deal.
I guess it all boils down to money. If you have disposable income then its not a big deal.
No reason to hate. Its a solid game.
And on a side note.. It was a big success in Korea, until they changed a lot of things with a new Patch. Trion has already said that they are not implementing those changes to the NA servers. Its why there were so many people on the RU servers that the Majority of them were locked, after first couple days, to new characters.
Lets see your Battle Stations /r/battlestations
Battle Station
That isn't actually true. It failed in Korea pretty much right from the start, patch 1.1 didn't make the game fail in Korea. It was failing so XL Games pushed 1.1 out but that didn't help either, so people decided to put the blame on 1.1.
The sad part is, that even games like Tera are TWICE as popular as AA in Korea. It was and still is a major disappointment in Korea, and I don't see it change in the West either.