I actually have been saving up money (and time) for ToS and if they release something like “founder pack”, “VIP”, “premium contents” I would buy them right away but I still don’t like the idea. This phrase should be handled with love (half-joking) not money. I don’t want to be one of the strongest players by that mean, I just want to have fun with others and involving money like that would kill my fun.
I don’t think so. The game contents are huge and things need to be fixed can lay everywhere from a little typo in a NPC’s dialogue standing on nowhere to bugs on very specific conditions. In companies they pay people to test games in specific ways which are extremely boring and tiresome, I don’t think any volunteering tester would go that far. Meaning that IMC may really need thousands of people to help them, these testers are not for show at all.