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[TyGeR STD]

Is it me or is this a large lack of useful information on this game? Even thought I don’t make a lot of post on the forums I do read them often. This is the part that gets me

InnerSphereNews, on 22 May 2012 - 10:25 AM, said:

Secondly, how the Founders program beta/early access works: The program is purchasable on June 19th and you gain guaranteed access to the closed beta on July 17th.

Ok, so the founder packs will be available for purchase in 7 days. This will guarantee access to the closed beta about one month after the pack release. These parts are not too hard to understand but there are a lot of questions about the rest. This is what the elite founders pack list

$60 ELITE Founder's Package Includes:

• Exclusive custom "Founder's BattleMech." This 'Mech includes a lifetime, per-match C-Bill booster.
  
• $80 value of in-game currency* for in-game item purchases.
  
• Two-month premium account to MechWarrior Online at launch: Earn XP & C-Bills faster.
  
• Founder's Tag - sets your status apart from the crowd & get noticed in-game and on the forums.
  
• Early access to the game along with Founder's assets availability starts July 17th.

The first bullet point is the Founders battle mech, it will include a lifetime per match C-bill booster. Is the same boost that players will get for paying for a premium account? If I am paying for a premium account will this booster be on top of that or will that nullify the perk of this booster?
The second bullet point is the $80 of in game currency, that’s great, I get $80 for $60, but what can I do with this currency? I haven’t seen any info on what I can purchase in an online store. Battle mechs? Custom paint jobs? Weapons? Ammo? And what will these things cost? That $80 of in game currency might last for months and months, but then on the other hand a battle mech might cost $100. I don’t think it would, but we have no info on this.
Two months of premium account, great, how much will a premium account run per month? $4.99, $9.99, maybe only $0.99 a month. It’s hard to gauge the value of my Elite package two months of premium account when I don’t know how much the monthly rate for a premium account will be.
Founder’s Tag, that’s not too hard to understand
Early access to the game on July 17^th. That’s around 30 days from now. I understand that most devs don’t know how long the beta will run. So this could give you just a few days of closed beta access or a few months before the game goes to open beta.

But sense this is all in beta, will there be any account resets before the game moves to open beta?
Will accounts be reset when the game moves from open beta to full release?
If the accounts are reset, will the purchases I make will my in game currency stay with my account or will they be reset and lost?
Will the currency be refunded to my account?
How soon do I have to pick my founders pack mech after my account is activated?
There are tons of other questions that spur from this, as well as other questions to the mechanics of the game itself. Everyone is assuming this game will run a lot like world of tanks, that each match will be a single spawn game mode. Once you die that’s it for the match and so on. But it seems that’s all we the players have so far is a lot of assumptions. We don’t have much info that has been released. When you start the game you pick a faction, merc, or lone wolf. We have no info on what this means as far as long term game play. Will I be able to change from one faction to another? What's the difference in this faction or another one? If I start as a merc or lone wolf and do not like this play style and move to a faction, do I have to start a new account or character? Will any of my premium account assests move with me if I make a new character? Another big question a lot of people have is what type of in game clan/guild support will there be? Not clan as in the clans but in game groups within the larger factions.

So far from the screen shots and in game videos I have seen this looks like it will be a fun an interesting game. I am a big battle tech fan and I am hoping this is a game I can get behind and play for a long time to come. But these are core questions that I think we should have answers to. I’m sure more people have more questions that are just as valid as the ones I listed. It would be nice if we could get more information on the game that many of us are looking to spend a lot of money on so we know what we are getting into.

[Elysion]

In another thread a dev said they would be adding a bunch of information about just what the founders pack is sometime this week so people know what they are buying.

[NinjaCool]

Yeah you can see the post right here
http://mwomercs.com/...post__p__359956

[Orion Pirate]

I do not believe they will offer monthly premium pay accounts. I think they will offer smaller micro transactions boosters that will be per win or smaller days then 30 days. 10 wins boosters or 10 days boosters for example.

Just my guess.

They also said there would be no more server wipes after the 17th of July.

I can wait until there is enough info to make an informed descision. I do not have to buy the pack on the 19th if they are waiting to release info. I know that all that info WILL be available on July 17th and I can buy it then...

Edited by Orion Pirate, 12 June 2012 - 04:57 AM.

[Aym]

Also, you don't read as many posts around here as you might think you do if you're missing some of this information. You can expect the information about this product for purchase at least by time it is available for purchase, and it is available for purchase for abour 4 weeks before it can be used, so that ought to be plenty of time.
Edited to add: It'll be worth buying for me, I'll pre-order it now full money down no problem.

Edited by Aym, 12 June 2012 - 05:08 AM.

[JazzySteel]

TyGeR STD, on 12 June 2012 - 04:23 AM, said:

The first bullet point is the Founders battle mech, it will include a lifetime per match C-bill booster. Is the same boost that players will get for paying for a premium account? If I am paying for a premium account will this booster be on top of that or will that nullify the perk of this booster?

I very very highly doubt one would nullify the other, why on earth would they give you both?

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The second bullet point is the $80 of in game currency, that’s great, I get $80 for $60, but what can I do with this currency? I haven’t seen any info on what I can purchase in an online store. Battle mechs? Custom paint jobs? Weapons? Ammo? And what will these things cost? That $80 of in game currency might last for months and months, but then on the other hand a battle mech might cost $100. I don’t think it would, but we have no info on this.

We have already seen from ingame footage released by the devs that you can at least purchase Mechs with real money, but not weapons or equipment that we know of. Also, the devs announced that they will be selling cosmetic items.

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Two months of premium account, great, how much will a premium account run per month? $4.99, $9.99, maybe only $0.99 a month. It’s hard to gauge the value of my Elite package two months of premium account when I don’t know how much the monthly rate for a premium account will be.

This is kinda irrelevant right now, just know that you have two months, its not important how much two months is worth, since they have already given you your moneys worth in the package and then some, and since this is to support the devs.

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Founder’s Tag, that’s not too hard to understand

Ikr.

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th[/sup]. That’s around 30 days from now. I understand that most devs don’t know how long the beta will run. So this could give you just a few days of closed beta access or a few months before the game goes to open beta.

But sense this is all in beta, will there be any account resets before the game moves to open beta?

Will accounts be reset when the game moves from open beta to full release?
If the accounts are reset, will the purchases I make will my in game currency stay with my account or will they be reset and lost?
Will the currency be refunded to my account?

The devs have announced several times that after the early release date on July 14 there will be no more account resets.

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How soon do I have to pick my founders pack mech after my account is activated?

There are tons of other questions that spur from this, as well as other questions to the mechanics of the game itself. Everyone is assuming this game will run a lot like world of tanks, that each match will be a single spawn game mode. Once you die that’s it for the match and so on. But it seems that’s all we the players have so far is a lot of assumptions. We don’t have much info that has been released. When you start the game you pick a faction, merc, or lone wolf. We have no info on what this means as far as long term game play. Will I be able to change from one faction to another? What's the difference in this faction or another one? If I start as a merc or lone wolf and do not like this play style and move to a faction, do I have to start a new account or character? Will any of my premium account assests move with me if I make a new character? Another big question a lot of people have is what type of in game clan/guild support will there be? Not clan as in the clans but in game groups within the larger factions.

I cant answer most of this.

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So far from the screen shots and in game videos I have seen this looks like it will be a fun an interesting game. I am a big battle tech fan and I am hoping this is a game I can get behind and play for a long time to come. But these are core questions that I think we should have answers to. I’m sure more people have more questions that are just as valid as the ones I listed. It would be nice if we could get more information on the game that many of us are looking to spend a lot of money on so we know what we are getting into.

Hope I could help.

[GHQCommander]

Don't look upon lack of information as lack of someone doing their job or them not caring people please. This is something many gamers do and it not only ruins a community but it disprespects a lot of hard work put in my the developers.

You can't spend money on it yet, there is no product on sale, so they don't need to be in a rush to deliver information so fast they get it wrong. Giving players something else to post about. So from a consumer point of view, you don't actually need the information yet either not really. The longer the wait to confirm the information, the more accurate it will be on official launch., never mind during early access.