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Originally Posted by Derubael
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TL;dr, support crowdfunded projects, especially ones that are targeted for your play-style like Pantheon is.
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Not good advice. In fact you should never donate money to something with so little information about it unless you are loaded. 60$? Ok, sure, if you really think it through beforehand. Something no one has done by this point as they are still releasing information - important information, mind you - about the game daily, meaning everyone who donates before the KS is about over is retarded or gullible. 5k? Hell no. Give your money away for something you may like, but probably won't because in the end it will either become vaporware or the developer is going to get ramrodded by a publisher and end up turning their game into slop? 800k isn't likely enough to make the game, it's just bait for potential investors to show that their game may be worth making. Investors that will shove their proverbial D up Brad's literal A. I respect and love the fact that they aren't intending on making another cloned themepark but there are hundreds of MMOs that aren't WoW clones that also ended up sucking. If you fund a game based on that alone you'd be broke.
Simple fact is you can't assume it's going to be the best game ever because of who is making it. Using the tag line of "From the guy who made EQ!" is about as helpful as ".... and also Vanguard." is hurtful. Vanguard wasn't complete shit, but it was more or less unplayable for people who weren't very selective and obsessive about their games. I think I saw like 30 people in the 5 hours I spent playing the game on launch day before I quit. Needless to say loads of issues aside from population. That is what investing in something gets you
most of the time. I pre-ordered thinking OMFG THE REAL EQ2 HAS COME and only played it for 1 or 2 days before I uninstalled along with 2 friends who were equally upset. Tried again like 2 years later and it was somehow even more quiet. After a few days of grinding I felt like I would never have anyone to play with so just said F it.
I wish Pantheon's team the best and hope they succeed in "the real EQ2" as much as anyone. I just don't see how it should affect individual donors in a major way. I think most people would have been totally fine with global bonuses like a few events with minor bonuses for donors. Minor. Not incredibly OP regen items that you have practically no chance of ever being able to buy (with plat, anyway. Apparently dollars works.) or an entire week to do removed/difficult quests and farm items with little competition in velious.
Bribing people into donating, which you are, even if you say it's a raffle or reward or incentive or whatever you want to call it.. it's just wrong.