Question about pricing

The price is high because this will be a real testing environment. Servers will keep resetting, chars wiped, there's gonna be all the bugs and no balancing. Intrepid mainly wants people who realize that they paid the money either to purely support the development or to properly test the game.

Even during alpha1 ($500) there were people that were doing dumb shit during testing, which Intrepid explicitly asked not to do. The lower the price the more such people will be present during testing.

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You can still contribute by watching streams (alpha2 will not be under nda) and giving your feedback from them.

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And for me, even the $250 price equals ~1.5 months of minimum salary in my country. I'm lucky enough to have the money for it w/o having a job, but there's also Liniker on the forum who's in a guild that bought these packages at prices equivalent to 2 months-worth of salary.

So while I get that we all want to test the game, I do agree with Steven's pov on this because the people who spent way more of their money (relatively speaking) will give so much more back to the game during testing than someone for whom this price is just a daily expense.