Originally posted by NephaeriusThe $1000 has absolutely nothing to do with greed or anything of the sort. It is a calculated move to obtain invested alpha testers without opening the floodgates to the masses. They don't want a ton of money. What they want is to not have a ton of people in their alpha. This pricing point will exclude a ton of people and keep the servers from being any where near overwhelmed. I would imagine someone willing to fork over that sum to alpha test a game would actually be invested in said game more so than free or $5 access.If you do any reading on gaming and economics especially through blogs like Gamasutra this is a common knowledge, well established, perfectly sensible, business and development strategy.
So by that same logic if you can't afford a $1000 buy in you could not possibly be as dedicated as the individual with $1000 of literally disposable income. With that kind of thinking I guess its a wonder how games ever got made when testers were actually paid professionals.
Originally posted by NephaeriusThe $1000 has absolutely nothing to do with greed or anything of the sort. It is a calculated move to obtain invested alpha testers without opening the floodgates to the masses. They don't want a ton of money. What they want is to not have a ton of people in their alpha. This pricing point will exclude a ton of people and keep the servers from being any where near overwhelmed. I would imagine someone willing to fork over that sum to alpha test a game would actually be invested in said game more so than free or $5 access.If you do any reading on gaming and economics especially through blogs like Gamasutra this is a common knowledge, well established, perfectly sensible, business and development strategy.
So by that same logic if you can't afford a $1000 buy in you could not possibly be as dedicated as the individual with $1000 of literally disposable income. With that kind of thinking I guess its a wonder how games ever got made when testers were actually paid professionals.
You're only looking at parts of my statement. The other reason for the $1000 being they don't want a billion people playing their alpha product. I also never said you could not possibly be as dedicated simply that if you're willing to spend $1000 on a product your more likely to be so. They want the $1000 to serve to gate off their product not to make mass profits. Also testers being paid professionals get games made because their being paid to be testers..... idk what that has to do with anything. Please actually read posts in the future before responding.
Not to mention they have given out quite a few alpha keys for free at this point......
Originally posted by MightyUnclean I heard that Pathfinder Online had opened alpha for Kickstarter pledgers and those who paid a fee. I went to the official site, expecting to see some kind of reasonable alpha buy-in. From what I can tell, alpha access costs **$1,000**! Is this true? Are people so desperate for a new game that they will pay this?
Some things, some causes, some ideas are worth much more than a thousand dollars. What exactly those things, causes and ideas might be will vary from one person to the next.
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So by that same logic if you can't afford a $1000 buy in you could not possibly be as dedicated as the individual with $1000 of literally disposable income. With that kind of thinking I guess its a wonder how games ever got made when testers were actually paid professionals.
It may be informative that free alpha invites handed out by those who paid the grand now outnumber the original alpha backers by about 6:1.
To dream, perhaps to be.
You're only looking at parts of my statement. The other reason for the $1000 being they don't want a billion people playing their alpha product. I also never said you could not possibly be as dedicated simply that if you're willing to spend $1000 on a product your more likely to be so. They want the $1000 to serve to gate off their product not to make mass profits. Also testers being paid professionals get games made because their being paid to be testers..... idk what that has to do with anything. Please actually read posts in the future before responding.
Not to mention they have given out quite a few alpha keys for free at this point......
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haha omfg!! just had a look and its crazy ><
Some things, some causes, some ideas are worth much more than a thousand dollars. What exactly those things, causes and ideas might be will vary from one person to the next.
To dream, perhaps to be.