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UPDATED: KickStarter Begins and Is Off to a Great Start - Ashes of Creation - MMORPG.com
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KickStarter Begins and Is Off to a Great Start - Ashes of Creation - MMORPG.com
Ashes of Creation News - The Ashes of Creation KickStarter has officially started. Intrepid Studios is out to raise $750,000 and is already out the gate with almost $175,000 in just fifteen minutes from over six hundred initial backers.
Here's the official press announcement:
Today marks another step towards the reinvigoration of the MMORPG genre. Ashes of Creation and the team at Intrepid Studios wants every MMORPG fan to be a part of the project. Though Intrepid Studios is a year into full development already, the studio wants to expand and expedite Ashes of Creation's unique take on the genre. To that end, they are seeking $750K in crowdfunding via Kickstarter's platform. As of this writing, the campaign has already crossed the $300,000 mark in less than ONE HOUR, and is well on its way to its goal.
As part of the month long Kickstarter, Intrepid is offering players amazing rewards with some fantastic in-game perks to help you on your journeys to come. The Kickstarter is live now and Intrepid Studios will be hosting all kinds of events and livestreams throughout the campaign for the community. During the streams, the devs will be handing out Alpha access for the game when that period of development comes later on.
Follow them on their development journey, and partake in discussions with the team by registering on the forums! Ashes of Creation is an upcoming MMORPG by Intrepid Studios. Set in a backdrop of high fantasy, players will venture into a vast new world to explore and tame the wilderness. Ashes of Creation’s foundational node system means player choice and actions build the entirety of the world! No two player experiences will feel the same - every server ebbs and flows with its own unique story and character all based on player choice.
Come join Intrepid and pledge your support for a fantasy world we can all play in together!
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Two things possible: One is they are acting tough and cool about the money, but in their hearts they hope for surpassing their current target enough to be able to make it. Two is they are tough and cool for real, and this Kickstarter is a marketing technic.
Well they already have a lot of private funding which they've said already. The kickstarter is for a few other reasons - to push them over the top of their current funding enough to make more than just a core game like many of these Kickstarters do, and really do what they want. But also it seems it's to create a good, passionate community, get their feedback, and I imagine it's good marketing as well. They have a working pre-alpha already which is more than even the bigger kickstarters like CU and CF.
I understand that mate. I was being sincere, not sarcastic.
Today's Press Announcement:
Today marks another step towards the reinvigoration of the MMORPG genre. Ashes of Creation and the team at Intrepid Studios wants every MMORPG fan to be a part of the project. Though Intrepid Studios is a year into full development already, the studio wants to expand and expedite Ashes of Creation's unique take on the genre. To that end, they are seeking $750K in crowdfunding via Kickstarter's platform. As of this writing, the campaign has already crossed the $300,000 mark in less than ONE HOUR, and is well on its way to its goal.
As part of the month long Kickstarter, Intrepid is offering players amazing rewards with some fantastic in-game perks to help you on your journeys to come. The Kickstarter is live now and Intrepid Studios will be hosting all kinds of events and livestreams throughout the campaign for the community. During the streams, the devs will be handing out Alpha access for the game when that period of development comes later on.
Follow them on their development journey, and partake in discussions with the team by registering on the forums! Ashes of Creation is an upcoming MMORPG by Intrepid Studios. Set in a backdrop of high fantasy, players will venture into a vast new world to explore and tame the wilderness. Ashes of Creation’s foundational node system means player choice and actions build the entirety of the world! No two player experiences will feel the same - every server ebbs and flows with its own unique story and character all based on player choice.
Come join Intrepid and pledge your support for a fantasy world we can all play in together!
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For starters, I am not a fan of Pay to play, (I am a buy-to-play, kind of guy), but what is worse is they took every "bad troupe" of kickstarters and put it in. The fact they offer a "life time subscription" so cheep tells me they aren't in for the long haul, think about it, if they offer a $400 lifetime sub and they charge the common-rate of $15 a month, then that is only 26 months worth of gameplay; why would they offer a life-time for only 26 months worth of sub? WoW has been up for over 144 months so IMO that is an extremely cheep buy-out and I trust them less for it.
Next you have the "pay more and get early access" - I truly hate developers that offer "early access" for excessive pay, it is a nasty thing to do in MMOs in general but majority of the time the players who invest in this get screwed with buggy, laggy or flat out game-breaking exploits that get abused (looking at you ESO.)
Lastly, I haven't seen any ground breaking gameplay to excuse these red flags I am seeing; I do not expect to play this game until the inevitable "free-to-play" switch in which I'll give it a shot (wonder how they will "compensate" those who invest in the "life-time sub.")
*If ESO can't pull off a pay-to-play, then neither can anything less than groundbreaking.
This is essentially what lifetime subs boil down to. We've seen it time and again.. people spend a couple hundred or more for a lifetime sub.. the game goes Free to Play shortly after.. and you end up with .. well... equivalent currency for things you don't really want or care about.
And unfortunately a lot of these "special" items you get for paying 50.. 60.. 80.. 100.. 250 or whatever, these eventually end up in the cash shop too, or something so similar to them its inconsequential. The disparity between the levels is pretty silly too..
Ya, the core game is already funded by them.
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Ryzom pulls of a pay to play subscription model, so does Final Fantasy. They do not switch because the game was failing as pay 2 play, they switch because there is much more money to be had with free 2 play cash shops, or buy 2 play cash shops, a hell of a lot more.
Let me know in 2020 how wrong I was.
Some are saying that they already have the majority of the game funded.. but... if most of the game was funded then they could launch it and expand upon it as time went on like studios have been doing for decades. Apparently they prefer the "free money" with little risk route.
Nothing bitter about it. People that don't invest reap the benefits. if the game launches and its good they get to play it anyways. If it doesn't they aren't out whatever money spent for unfulfilled promises.
Some people rather not throw money down the drain.. theres nothing bitter about that.