Hello Developers and Community,
I first of all would like to just come out and say that people are being ridiculous…Many of us have been waiting in the wings for this game. I desperately want to play it. But I also understand that good game development takes time, and frankly you men and women who are making this wonderful game DESERVE to have some revenue for all your efforts. With a game as beautiful as this one looks to be I do NOT think it is unreasonable to offer early access packages. To be honest I do not think this game should be Free to Play at ALL. And here is why: if a company recieves revenue for purchase of a game that revenue will go towards not only further development and bug fixes but also towards dedicated servers and all around BETTER GAMEPLAY!
Seeing as there are many people that are upset (like I am) that the package that was going to be offered has not been released and that as of right now everything is on a frustrating hold I propose this: DO THEM ALL.
Offer 3 month, 2 month, 1 month, and 1 week options. Let people pick which they would rather have. I for one would buy the 3 month. Not because I want to exceed above the other players of the community, but because you guys deserve the revenue and I feel like I have been waiting FOREVER to play this game. Even though it is mere months away, I WANT to play it now. and i would be willing to SPEND MONEY to do so! If others are not willing that is their perogative, and quite honestly coincides nicely with your plans to gradually have more and more people join the community, rather than the servers being flooded and unplayable all at once.
If you were to do the above plan assuming that approximately 10,000 people are interested/concerned about playing this means you would have roughly 1,100 people on the first opening, roughly 6,400 added to the servers one month prior and the remainder flood the servers on release date or a week prior. I STRONGLY urge you to continue the tiered system because in the end it will cause less bugs, less server crashes, and less overall BS that we have to deal with as fans at launch. Please cosider what is BEST for the game and the overall functionality…not necessarily what us impatient people want. cause what I would of wanted was to play it YESTERDAY even if i have to pay for it