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@Triggy said in Is it worth buying alpha?:

Hi, I was a big fan of albion online but server issues making me getting sick of it. I found this game lately yet not many information of it. so.. is it still worth buying alpha?

I'd say if you are unsure, dont buy alpha.
If you dont want to test a unfinished buggy game, dont buy

If you love finding bugs
Want to support the vision
Are willing to risk your money towards a idear

Then join us
I belive in this company and think this game will be amazing.

But I'd say dont ask us, you need to decide what's right for you

Re: suggestion on attracting huge mass of new players to buy FracturedMMO

I hope fractured make subing feel worthwhile but not mandatory.
I think focusing on cosmetic changes like being able to dye armour mounts pets weapons special idle animation and cool looking magic effects
plus a small amount of game shop gold to save up for cosmetics
Do not have convenience items such as faster leveling more resources collection things that you have to have to have to be competitive this should not be in the vip.
This is a buy to play game and imo should feel like a full game that doesn't need any pay for addons to enjoy

@LordNecro not research the game at all before buying? or look at the pack that you purchased, it clearly states the current state of the game (being in alpha), and the package you paid for clearly states, that it will grant access to the BETA

I'm wondering/hoping foundation chests could become chest skins once opened, I personally really like the chests look and would like to use them in my house.

I would also be happy with buying a copy of them in the fractured store.

If you would rather not give them away for fee

@Dev

@Dev said in VIP / Shop and my random thoughts:

Ah guys. What do you want?

You don’t want subscriptions? - fine
You don’t want a ridiculous high one time fee? - fine
You don’t want any kind of true benefit from a real money shop? - fine
You don’t want many paid addons? - fine
You don’t want cosmetics at a ridiculous price? - fine

So... who pays the developers and servers? Do you think that running on AWS or any cloud provider is ‘cheap’? They have to keep their tools updated, buy licenses, external people. Pay the studio rooms, employees and just everything else.

It may have worked for a ‘giant’ company with a Publisher like GuildWars, but I’m pretty sure they had way more funding money and owned/purchased the hardware. That kept the recurring cost way lower. Having more employees and creating two paid (full price!) expansions per year, was then mandatory to stay afloat. And if you calculate that, it’s around 2*39€ per year, if you wanted to stay with the competition and get the latest classes and content. The base game also started with around 45€. Hm... thats around 80€/12Months which is ~6,70€ if you make it a monthly fee.

Now it’s time to remember, that fractured is an absolute niche game. It might grow out of it, but right now only a couple people in my circles are remotely interested at all. Most dislike the iso2D and all that farming/collecting/‘skilling’. It looks outdated on the first glance of an inexperienced person. Why do you think the currently raised amount is so ‘low’? Even though much of it was due to lack of advertising and marketing... And now people just say: ‘Ah. Let’s wait if they complete it before I spend money’.

Looking at the currently biggest competitor (Albion) the VIP/Premium nets you quite some benefits, but its totally playable without it. It speeds things up but does not yield into any direct advantage during battles. Most people have no problem with paying that money, as a yearly subscription is below 5€/pMonth so not even 5$ a month - for a game which continues to get enhanced, maintained and free(!) content-updates. No requirements to buy the game itself, no paid AddOns. If its not worth that one time ice-cream or pack of cigarettes per month, how is it worth you invest HOURS upon HOURS into it? And you/your friends can still do exactly that. Play for absolutely free and get the premium through inGame-Currency - if you even need it.

The reason not all of the ‘cheaper’ packs are sold out, is due to the fact that the benefits are nice, but (at least for me) not interesting. I’ve spent around 120€ on the EliteDangerous - LifetimeExpansionPass, simply to support the games development and get a return in the long-run. Did not have to buy a single AddOn and so it pays for itself. Would love to get the Knights-Package but eh... VIP will be a sad story with 0 benefits and takes years to remotely pay itself off, if I even play it that long and it ever completes development. Also I couldn’t care less about the Title (as you get better sounding ones from the Foundation (IMHO)) and inGame-Gold.

But all this ‘uhhh do not make this’, ‘don’t sell that’, ‘the VIP bonuses should be below 5%’ and so on... it will only kill Fractured in the long run. There are and will always be some CashCows and hardcore fans to invest a lot of money, but it might just not be enough. Most people are cheapskates and would not pay a dime if they could - but giving them just one small disadvantage, will bring them to the forums, crying how crappy everything is. Get a job maybe?

So... let’s close my rant with this:

You get what you pay for - Why shouldn’t the developer’s?

I understand you want this company to Succeed (so do I) first off to counter your argument about "uhh do not make this , do not sell this" - assuming its about the thread i opened yesterday? GameShopOpinion
Online games - can use Cosmetic to fund online services , take a look at DOTA (its completely free apart from cosmetics)

But to get in to the grit of your post, wanting the company to succeed?
Im gonna tell you my opinion on why Cash shops need to be very careful, because a bad cash-shop Modle, One that makes the company look greedy or puts must buy items in to the cash shop to stop the game being monotonous (Grind or pay options)

P2Win actually hurts games , and the modern gamer has just come to accept it as if we have no choice
P2W games will become frustrating at some point and will in most cases punish players who don't use the Cash shop, Causing people to leave

Do you like being scammed? - buying a game then being forced to spend another 50 quid on bag upgrades bag weight improvements on every char , because "devs gotta eat"
What sort of Elitist mentality of player do you think this brings?

Do you enjoy fair game play?, think about it long and hard , do you actually want the people that can only afford to buy the game once (and not sub) to stop playing because with out game shop subs the game is pointless?, less players = worse economy , worse community , higher risk of the game dyeing
And if you don't care about community then, well, you aren't really an MMO player

A company's image and values, is worth a hundred times more then money.
I understand your fear that the game wont stay afloat unless it has some minor p2w
but the power of cosmetics is all you need - take a look at maple story 2.

If you would like to hear someone explain it better, I know they are free to play mmos but like you said Fractured is a niche, so if it doent get a huge player base it likely will go free 2 play as well

@Kclepp said in Pledged!:

After what seems like millennia of waiting and watching, i have finally decided to support this amazing project, looking forward to the years to come!

Gl in your future adventures may all your encounters be epic

@Farlander said in Communication between the worlds:

A language barrier is a degree of difficulty at the beginning of the game. Casual players will leave if they can't interact with their friends.

@Farlander said in Communication between the worlds:

A language barrier is a degree of difficulty at the beginning of the game. Casual players will leave if they can't interact with their friends.

Friends that will leave if they cant pm each other will stick to the same race? Ie beastmen demon or human, or they wont be playing together

@Azraelius is that the one you start off on a blimp that gets taken down and you have to find stuff to repair it? i never got every far on that game lol

Welcome to fractured I personally love the foundation Iv backed a lot of games I'm waiting for release non of them I actively follow star citizen I dont use the forums I have spent 600 quid on it though, crowfall, I'm waiting on as well again dont use the forums at all

Fractured foundation got me hooked and I follow it far more closely and give feedback more closely.

I hope you enjoy your stay here and enjoy future tests

@Znirf said in Foundation chests:

Hello everyone! Right now, the only way to have a different skin for your chests in-game is to buy the furniture set in the Store

I Hope you consider selling lookalike foundation boxs in the store one day

@Meiki so do you think if demons (like andarial in diablo 2) had its nips out - will it likely to happen because above art has nips (games imo are just animated art) , I think this kind of nudity is a high possibility considering the art work

@Shivashanti said in Thanks for having the open play test...:

because running servers do cost a lot of money

They apparently are getting free servers so that's probably not the reason

@Gothix said in Reserve a name separately?:

Perhaps a system like a blizzard has. Account name, which would be the name we are active under in forums by default (and could be changed once, if people wished, because they didn't plan on it being forum name, so give everyone one inital possibility to change it if they like, then keep it), and then character names in game would be independent of it.

But friends could be found through account name.

For example: my account name would be Gothix but I wouldn't need to have character named Gothix in game, I could have demon named Demonicus, and beastman named Beasty, and people could still find me by searching my account name (Gothix).

Of course if people wished to played incognito, privacy option would exist to be turned on, so people who don't wish their characters known can't be found through account name.

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Initially, system could set account name to already existing forum user name, and allow people one free change, if they wished, as long as what they wish isn't taken already.

Id like that system , providing its #01 onward

it always annoys me in blizzard that im Xzoviac#2357 , when im 100% the only Xzoviac, i should be Xzoviac#01 or #0001

@Meiki I'm off to make a bomb wish me luck how much lemon does it need?

It makes no difference to have one or more servers with SpatialOS. It's all usage-based. Also, we'll be in the Games Innovation Program once we're funded, so we won't have to pay server expenses for a while anyway

They are getting free servers so that's probably not the reason quote from Prometheus

my edit went wrong and I ended up posting twice lol

@Farlander said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

I know it's a mmo but I do still like to solo from time to time. I hate grouping with people I don't know especially via some "looking for group" function. I work odd hours so I'm not always able to group with people I know so instead of doing random grouping I just solo.

Same I like soloing, and if everything needs to be in groups the bots will just run 10/20 bots at a time in a grp

@Tuoni I think streaming on twitch and youtube videos , and getting some of the more popular mmo youtubers to review fractured (invite them to the alpha to test) would bring in lots of attention, i will post some of the youtubers I watch, I don't really watch twitch- so cant help with streamers

Rhykker - I watch this guy for info on Arpgs mostly diablo 3 builds, 480,275 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRl31PWkfF0a3j3hiDRaCGA

TheLazyPeon - I find this guy funny and I like watching his MMO reviews, 459,466 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/user/ALazyPeon

MMOhut- does live streams with developers and is pretty informative good collection of mmos and a website they could advertise fractured on, 432,473 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/user/MMOHut

if Fractured invite these 3 people that's a potential of 1.5million more people seeing the game just on subscribers , a free alpha account to get them to advertise for you would be worth it IMO

@Elric said in Really Disappointed.:

@Pwnstar said in Really Disappointed.:

@Elric Why are you mad at my rank? It just means I've put time into this forum helping people. You can do the same if you put the effort in.

Just saying, if you have a rank like that - it makes it seem like you are an important part of this community. Like you said, you put the time into the forum "helping people". Then you read this post of an obviously frustrated new player, and your response is:

"You can't get away from toxic people. They are all around you. If you don't notice that, it's because YOU'RE the toxic one."

See, that to me does not strike me as something a helpful member of the community would say. That sounds like someone who posts just to cause drama, and is quite the opposite of helpful. I'd expect that kind of behavior from a troll. Not a dedicated member of a new (but growing) community.

Acting like the victim when your OP , started with -

The alpha test was pointless, anything past gathering and crafting was a waste of time.
Every plot is taken (they where not), everyone in chat are a bunch of kids trolling people, the only response from the community you got in chat was trolls

literally one person had copy paste auto responses to questions because the same questions got asked over and over again ...

You question the point in the alpha test because you couldnt be bothered to look for a plot, and then how you think new players can not test most of the game (pushing your victim complex on everyone else), and finally how the only positive thing about this test/game, is that you now know we are a toxic community, and the game is full of "issues" and that you are glad to have not invested time or money in to this game.

please point out to me how your OP is not toxic?, think people are giving you pretty easy going answers considering the hostility and negativity you yourself are spewing

please tell everyone more how you are the victim in this conversation and everyone but you is toxic

@Logain said in Anti-Hack/Cheat/Bot:

Turing test.

This was 2 years ago, so its likely even better now, dunno if it Truly understands human speech and responds, appropriately, but the people on the other end of the phone , definitely did not know that they where speaking to a robot