Personally, I think IMCGames best way to solve all the drama going on is simply by scrapping the idea of their “Founder’s paid Early Access” and simply going back to their original plan. Things would have been smooth sailing if they just released the game in Open Beta at ONE fixed date for EVERY player and they did not introduce this approach last minute.
If they needed to get some money, make the game F2P but then include:
- Microtransactions/cosmetics/whatnot
- an optional Paid premium service (like TERA’s, gain more EXP, gold from PvE for a fixed number of days)
I don’t know about you guys, but in my opinion this is the simplest solution to solve all the issues.
P.S: Personally, $50 is not an issue for me to spend, but I can’t agree with that 3 month headstart. If they wanted to sell the game, I wouldn’t mind a “Pay once, play forever” - Guild Wars 2 style type of payment.

