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Albion Online: Site Redesigned & Founders Packs Revealed
SBFord
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The Albion Online site has been completely reworked to give fans and players easier access to the information they want to know about the forthcoming title. In addition, the first details have been revealed about Founders Packs. Founders Packs, each with a variety of in-game perks, can be purchased for $99.95, $49.95 or $29.95.
Founder’s packs are a great way for community and developer to interact in a way that supports the achievement of a common vision of the game, while also benefitting both parties.
Founder’s packs are kits of rewards, such as access to alpha and beta testing and unique, exclusive in-game items, which players purchase, with all proceeds going directly to the development of a bigger, better game. In this way a developer gets support, the quality of the final product increases, and fans who want to show their support are rewarded with cool gear and the chance to test the game.
By buying a founder’s pack for Albion Online, you are directly contributing to helping Sandbox Interactive make Albion Online the game we all want it to be.
Find out more, or order your Founders Pack, on the Albion Online site.
Thanks to TweFoju for the tip!
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One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
What are you on about? I know about the game, but regardless this is entirely irrelevant to the fact that I hate games selling alpha access for absurdly high prices.
I am glad you are looking forward to it, but don't start trying to impose your views on others.
A scam is not even a game to me ef their founders bs.
"mmorpg.com forum admins are all TROLLS and losers in real life"
My opinion
Isnt that what you are trying to do?
No I simply stated my opinion. I did not start trying to call out other people's perfectly valid opinions as incorrect and based on a lack of knowledge.
That is the fundamental difference.
Little dissapointed there is no farming / tradepack style features in the game. I think Archeage is really onto a winner with that for the west.
Does anyone know when the next Alpha event is for Albion?
P.S. I think it was a terrilbe idea to release founder packs while the servers arent up!
Hi my name is Stefan and I am one of the founders of Albion Online, Farming/Cooking/Livestock are planned for shortly after release!
In addition we have some really nice "territory based PVP mechanics". City Fights and I think some unique economy mechanics as well.
It is hard to compare Albion with ArchAge I would say, although both are sandbox games they feel completely different.
Kind regards,
Stefan
A medieval sandbox MMO
http://www.facebook.com/albiononline/
I miss MMORPGs where everybody paid the same each month and was equal.
Those were the days.
I guess I'm too old for the new MMORPGs. Those super expensive founders packs for pay2win games? Pfff, no thanks. I rather buy several dozen indie games or several good AAA games that come complete with everything for that money.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
Yeah, I dont know what to say really.
Isn't getting into the Alpha enouth? Since I guess your progress in the Alphas will get whiped upon release I'd say it's not worth it what so ever.
But if you keep everything from the Alphas into the release then sure, people will want to get the Alpha Headstarts to get further then others.
its a GoOd dAy to diE !!
I signed up for Alpha testing over a month ago. Got the email confirmation, and have heard NOTHING from them since.
Tried to register for the forums, which was impossible because the Captcha would not display. Web page said if you encountered any problem to contact their Administration, but no link to Administration existed. Emailed them twice (screen shot included) to point this out.
No reply.
Weeks went by checking their web page to see if it had been fixed. Neuuuup.
Now they want money?
Just say "No".
My computer beats me in Strip Poker, but doesn't stand a chance against my Kick Boxing! >: D 3
I took a look at the Founder's Packs earlier, and unless I missed something, they look very reasonable to me.
No 150-400$ packs among them, the highest I saw was a 50$ pack.
Which is basically the same thing as buying a boxed game.
Except, you know... optional in this case.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
100 is too high i think for this kinda thing... to me the founders packs should be more like 20 / 35 / 50 for the low, med, high packs.
its not as bad as eldevin which had 1000$ packs (for real) but still high. I might buy the cheapest one if i really really wanna support the game. I don't want developers to get the idea that 100 is cool for alpha access to a free game (i know, they get the idea regfardless of me. well i dont want them to get the idea reinforced by me).
I do see it as OK to sell some kind of founders pack as there arent any box sales for the game, i just am saying the price is jacked too high. the only game i ever spent over 100 on in one shot was LOTRO lifetime sub for 199 when the game came out, and if you figure 12.50 a month in sub fees, i've saved about 100$ in sub fees even if you only count the months i played it, plus the 5$ or whatever worth of turbinepoints that they give subs every month.
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hmm i am not sure why you are having that problem, because i registered in the forum just fine, and even when i just tried to register a new name using the website's new redesigned system, it is still working just fine,
have you tried using your other computer? to be honest, the dev are one of the most active dev that i know of, and they are pretty much active almost every day answering questions in the forum, and of course they can't be on 24/7, but during peak hour time, they are always active most of the time
So What Now?
if its going to be b2p not f2p title i think they are reasonably priced. You dont have to buy it if you think its to rich for your blood then dont purchase.
I have no problem with founders pack
kickstarters is a different story
Whats extortionate about it ?
lets see the top pack is $99 you get $50 in game cash + 90 premium time so lets just say thats the same price as most other mmorpgs $15 so you are just abotu at what you piad already, then you get alpha access and a ton of other ingame stuff..
If its a game you are looking forward to and want to be part fo the development process then that is not a bad price.
The developer can attach any arbitrary value they choose to in-game cash so the $ figure is meaningless.
I also find it objectionable that these days people are charged for alpha access; charging people to test your unfinished game simply should not happen; or more to the point consumers should not put up with purchasing it. To me, being asked to test someone's game is something I should be paid for or at least receive a sizable discount for.
The second problem with charging people for alpha access is that you attract people who will treat it as a perk or a form of early access and use it to find the fastest path to cap or exploits or farming areas, as opposed to people who want to test the game and report on the issues they uncover in order to improve the game.
I find it sad that we have reached such a mercenary and unpleasant state in the monetization of mmo's that people think $99 is an acceptable price to test someone's unfinished game for them, receive some fluff and to pay a premium for virtual currency which can only be spent in the games cash shop.
hey archage is better then this game by far, worth every penny and its full feature sandbox.
The thing is its a choice.. you dont have to pay if you dont want to, but people always asked for a good way to alpha test MMORPGs without having to wait so now they have that option if thats what they want to do.
You dont have to pay to test, hell I am currently in a few alpha/beta tests that I ahve not paid forbut I had the chocieto do so, yes maybe I had to wait a bit longer but I was ok with that.
As for people using it as a perk to find the fastest path to cap.. well sure that would happen but if it does at least the devs will be able to see how they did it.
$99 is more than acceptable if you want to pay it.. you are not being forced to do anything. If you dont want to pay $99 now then just wait for the game to get released. Before this kind of thing came along you never even had a choice, maybe if you got lucky you could get access to closed beta but that was about. This knid of thing lets people who want to get invovled early on with the games development if they want to do so.
you know it is not only playable on PC but on tablets also.....
Hi guys,
I am one of the founders of Albion Online. I can understand the negative PR Founders Packs are getting lately. Especially if companys who don't really need them are doing it. Actually we would have preferred to do a kickstarter campaign but since we are a German company there a lot of problems which we couldnt pass to get a kickstarter account. And the other European versions of it are not that famous.
As you can see from the YT videos and maybe read from our forums, the game is already in very stable state and people enjoyed the last tests a lot. During the last 1,5 years we have given away lots of keys for free to really help test the game, when it was still buggy. Sth. not a lot of even small companies are doing these days. I also think that what you get for it (despite the access) is very reasonable and we did put a lot of love into it as well
But for us we are now at a cross road (as an independent company) We had more or less two options. Release a game which is solid but in our point of view not yet complete or ask for the help of the community founding the next 6-9 months of development so we can release the product we prefer.
The money is spent into fine tuning and creating a larger game world. The core game mechanics are already in place and people are enjoying it (as you might see from the forums).
In general a lot of new independent games are possible due to systems like Founders Packs (or Kickstarter Campaigns, which is the exact same thing, just without the platform). Unfortuantely there are and will always be negative examples, like games full of bugs or games that are not released at all. That is why it is important that the players themselves always have a close look and decide for themselves how likely it is that this game will be released.
Anyway, we did not want to offend anyone with our offer we are just trying to find a way to keep our developemt going.
Kind regards,
Stefan
PS.: Here is a list of Videos made by the community from our last test: http://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/2859-Indexed-Videos-from-Albion-Online/?postID=31200#post31200
A medieval sandbox MMO
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