Informal Petition Against Buying Into Early Velious

[Byrjun]

Originally Posted by Derubael [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this. not going to make a single bit of difference 1 month into release.

I feel like an ass since I've posted this 10 times and I'm repeating myself in every thread that mentions the $$ rewards, but apparently it's not getting read. Anyways, I'm not sure what EverQuest you played where having an opportunity to get your entire Velious geared raid force into WW an hour or more before another guild can get their Kunark geared raid force into WW isn't an advantage. And yes, getting quest armor, Kael armor, ToV armor, and ST keys will make a difference a month into Velious, that's what gear advantage is all about. That's why people raid competitively in the first place.

It's disappointing that the GMs just don't understand what a big deal this is. Advantages aside, it totally cheapens the fun of launching a new expansion.

Signed, this whole concept is still gross to me. Don't care much about exp pots or guises even though that is weird too, wish they would have just left it at that instead of marring the launch of Velious.

[Derubael]

Originally Posted by Byrjun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I feel like an ass since I've posted this 10 times and I'm repeating myself in every thread that mentions the $$ rewards, but apparently it's not getting read. Anyways, I'm not sure what EverQuest you played where having an opportunity to get your entire Velious geared raid force into WW an hour or more before another guild can get their Kunark geared raid force into WW isn't an advantage. And yes, getting quest armor, Kael armor, ToV armor, and ST keys will make a difference a month into Velious, that's what gear advantage is all about. That's why people raid competitively in the first place.

It's disappointing that the GMs just don't understand what a big deal this is. Advantages aside, it totally cheapens the fun of launching a new expansion.

Signed, this whole concept is still gross to me. Don't care much about exp pots or guises even though that is weird too, wish they would have just left it at that instead of marring the launch of Velious.

You're assuming that people will be able to get an entire raid force geared, keyed, and ready to go in 3-7 days. You're also assuming that guilds will have an entire raid force paid for early access, instead of a handful of people. While the may be possible, it's not likely. Even if it does happen, how does this affect the server 1 month into Velious?

[Alarti0001]

[QUOTE=Derubael;1310890]
this. not going to make a single bit of difference 1 month into release. we saw a project that was being made specifically to cater to our interests as gamers, and our players interests as gamers, and said 'we need to do something big to help these guys.'
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That first month is of course the most important month for many people....

[Sirken]

Originally Posted by Daysprung [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you think the p1999 dev team isn't getting money out of this I'd say you're being naive.

if u believe the p99 guys are getting money out of this you are an idiot. is it really that hard to process the fact that we want Pantheon to be a success? we reached out to them because we wanted to try to help as best we could. if you listen to the stream, they found out about the pledge at the same time as everyone else, we thought it would be a nice surprise.

all monies go straight to Pantheon, the ONLY thing we are getting is a list of Donators that have p99 in their name so we can properly thank those players (via the posted rewards for donation amounts) for supporting a game that the p99 staff strongly wants to see get made.

next time i see this crap it will be treated the same as every other person that thinks its cute to accuse the staff of rmt.

<3
Sirks

[Burrito]

I didn't look at the pledge rewards- but I definately remember there being a distinct beta/early access. It seems they went back on that and offered early access at differant tiers which does help a bit and alleviate some of the stress on people paying premium for access.

I guess people will still try to lockdown camps.

[Striiker]

Originally Posted by Burrito [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I didn't look at the pledge rewards- but I definately remember there being a distinct beta/early access. It seems they went back on that and offered early access at differant tiers which does help a bit and alleviate some of the stress on people paying premium for access.

I guess people will still try to lockdown camps.

Beta access to Velious and Early access are two different things..

All will be able to access Velious for Beta testing (nothing I have read contradicts that). They did this for Kunark here and I see no reason for this to change for Velious. For Kunark, you typed a command on your character and a copy of that character was made and inserted onto the beta server player list. You could also get translocated to specific locations and get a starter pack to go explore. I anticipate a similar thing for Velious..

Early access is for live server access on your characters. You can go in on the main server, explore, get XP, buy / get loot and return with it to the old world. One week later, the rest of the server will have access to Velious.

[Dakidd4990]

Originally Posted by Triangle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This server has never been pay to play not because the players refuse to pay but instead because Nilbog and rogaen deem it to be so.

You're cute if you think it's free to play out of the kindness of their hearts. If any emulated EQ server charged to play they would be shut down by Sony within days at most. They would likely receive a cease and desist within hours. I would gladly pay $15 a month to play P99 for some minor bonuses each month (Maybe a couple exp pots?) and to generally improve the server but there's no way in hell Sony would allow it. Otherwise I'm pretty sure it would've been attempted already.

Don't even get me started on paying for early Velious access.... I would've preferred that they give people beta access for donating to Pantheon. Giving people a headstart on LIVE servers is horsesh*t.

[csc2153]

Wait when 3 years from now you are going to pray for luclin release. This 3 day head start wont mean a damned thing. Trust me, Velious will be here for a while.

[Artaenc]

Originally Posted by csc2153 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wait when 3 years from now you are going to pray for luclin release. This 3 day head start wont mean a damned thing. Trust me, Velious will be here for a while.

+1

[Locust]

signed. i'd rather give 50 bucks to a coal furance than another modern failboat mmo. don't put faith in false gods.