Clear as Mudd – Part Deux

Today’s pieces on Massively and MMORPG have caused some confusion about our Kickstarter tiers. While I have been posting on both fine sites; as per a suggestion from one of the posters (in truth, multiple posters) I thought I’d post here to clear up the confusion.

First, like most game-based Kickstarter projects we will have both “physical” and “digital” tiers. MMORPG covered a sampling of digital tiers while Massively covered a sampling of the physical tiers.

Secondly, as of now we have over two dozen different pledge tiers for our Kickstarter with “two for one tiers”, “guild tiers” and some crazy tiers. The tiers on MMORPG and Massively only cover ½ of the total tiers.

Thirdly, the tiers that include a copy of the game start at $25 and go up from there. All those tiers come with access to different stages of beta and some include alpha (more on this later). Over the next few days we will be answering questions from both sites and from their posters. Once we do that, we will post all the tiers for additional feedback.

Finally, there has also been some concern about our “Alpha Access” tier. Unfortunately, we were thinking of Alpha Access as “our code isn’t a game yet, help us break it, beat it to a pulp” tier where the more common interpretation these days is for a tier that is more polished, feature-filled, content-filled than how I viewed alpha (old school, sorry). As such, I’ll be modifying some of the wording and access dates around to be more in line with current MMORPG standards. We will still have a very early access tier but it won’t be called Alpha Access any more.

Here’s the current combined list of all the tiers that we have talked about so far.

Pledge Tier $25(Digital) – Comes with access to private forums, official “Thank You” email/letter, Bronze forum badge, 5 FPs, 1 digital copy of the game, 1 month free subscription, digital manual, special in-game title, an additional 5 FPs if you bought March on Oz, an additional 5 FPs if you are a subscriber to our newsletter, access to our Founder’s Store and Beta 5 Access to the game.

Pledge Tier $50(Digital) – Comes with everything above plus a special founder’s gravestone marker, founder’s app, ringtones and wallpapers, digital strategy guide, special thanks in the credits, founder’s crafting icon, extra beta invites (# TBD), realm-locked founder’s chat, Beta 4 access, 25 FPs and an additional 1 month of subscription.

Pledge Tier $110(Digital) – Comes with everything above plus special starter armor (cosmetic difference only), special starter weapon (cosmetic difference only), founder’s wall plaque, unique trophies, unique dyes, digital copy of the art book, special in-game thanks, extra character slots (# TBD), discounted sub rate ($ TDB), Gold forum badge, Beta 2 access, 40 total FPs and a total of 3 months of free subscription.

Pledge Tier $120(Physical) – Comes with access to private forums, official “Thank You” email/letter, Silver forum badge, 30 FPs, 1 DVD copy of the game for PC, 1 month free subscription, digital manual, special in-game title, an additional 5 FPs if you bought March on Oz, an additional 5 FPs if you are a subscriber to our newsletter, access to our Founder’s Store, special founder’s death marker, founder’s app, ringtones and wallpapers, digital strategy guide, digital high resolution map, special thanks in the credits, founder’s crafting icon, extra beta invites (# TBD), realm-locked founder’s chat, cloth map, printed manual, and Beta 3 access.

Pledge Tier $150(Digital) (a two for one tier) – Comes with 2 digital copies of the game, everything in the $50 tier, special starter armor (cosmetic), special starter weapon (cosmetic), wall plaque and an additional free month of subscription for each copy of the game, 40 FPs for each account, discounted sub rate ($ TBD), Beta 3 access and Gold forum badge.

Pledge Tier $200(Digital) (This is our “pure” alpha access tier) – Comes with everything in the $50 tier, alpha testing wall plaque, alpha access trophy, discounted sub rate ($ TBD), Platinum Forum Badge, Alpha testing access and 25 FPs.

Pledge Tier $250(Digital) – Comes with everything in the $50 tier plus special starter armor (cosmetic), special starter weapon (cosmetic), wall plaque, 3 year subscription renewable for $1 per year (Kickstarter has asked us not to have a lifetime subscription but a shorter one that renews for a small amount and well, $1 is pretty small), extra character slots (# TBD), Beta 2 access, Platinum forum badge and 60 FPs.

Pledge Tier $250(Physical) – Comes with everything above plus special starter armor (cosmetic difference only), special starter weapon (cosmetic difference only), founder’s wall plaque, unique trophies, unique dyes, digital copy of the art book, special in-game thanks, extra character slots (# TBD), discounted sub rate ($ TDB), Platinum forum badge, Beta 2 access, 40 total FPs, founder’s statue for display outside of your house, a total of 6 months free subscription, CU mouse pad and printed art book.

Pledge Tier $450(Physical) – Comes with everything above plus a total of 50 FPs, an additional digital copy of the game (30 days subscription on the second copy), additional exclusive cosmetic housing items, 3D character model of your choice (1), CU poster signed by the development team, cloth map signed by Mark Jacobs, special backer credits, 12 month subscription and Beta 1 access.

Pledge Tier $500(Digital) – Comes with everything in the $250 tier and also includes 2 additional digital copies of the game (these do not include the renewable subscription), the art book, special thanks in-game, extra character slots (# TBD), in-game founder’s statue for display outside your home, exclusive cosmetic housing items, statue in Founder’s Row, Alpha testing access, Mithril forum badge and 150 FPs.

Pledge Tier $750(Physical) – Comes with everything above plus 150 FPs, 18 month subscription for main account, two digital copies of the game with 3 months subscription each, Platinum forum badge, printed copy of our Rejected Art, 3D model from your favorite realm, statue in Founder’s Row, one hand signed piece of concept art from the game and Alpha access.

Pledge Tier $1,250(Physical) – (BSC edition, non-repeatable) – Comes with everything above plus a total of 250 FPs, three-year subscription (renewable at $1 per year as per Kickstarter’s ask when it comes to anytime “lifetime”), Mithril forum badge, one additional piece of unique hand- signed concept art (two total), and one hand-painted miniature from your favorite realm.

As you can see I’ve only listed only 12 tiers, there are more than a dozen more to go.

Sorry about the confusion, both MMORPG and Massively have been kind enough to cover this project from day one and I didn’t want to give all the coverage to one or the other site so please accept my apologies for any confusion that this caused.

In other words, Mea Culpa. 🙂

Mark