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cmpinpointerror
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Greetings, Adventurers!
Neverwinter's first Beta Weekend begins February 8, 2013. On that day, The Forgotten Realms becomes a reality for brave heroes and heroines to explore and dungeon delve. Victory and epic loot await the fearless and the fast, but for the weak of body and mind, there can be only ignominious death.
One way to gain coveted access to the first Neverwinter Beta Weekend is with a Hero of the North Founder's Pack. But don't fret! There are more ways yet to be revealed for hungry and anxious adventurers to join the Neverwinter Beta Weekends.
You may have also noticed that our Founder's Packs are not yet available for purchase. We took 20 on our Perception check and uncovered a few traps and several goblins. As a result, we temporarily delayed the start of our Founder's Pack sales while we slayed... um, addressed any outstanding issues.
For our Neverwinter fans looking to grab a Founder's Pack and secure guaranteed access to our Beta Weekends, the wait will be precious short.
Stay tuned to our homepage, ye Heroes of the North for the latest information on our Founder's Pack promotion. Keep an action ready because your turn is coming right up.
Sincerely,
The Neverwinter Team
Neverwinter's first Beta Weekend begins February 8, 2013. On that day, The Forgotten Realms becomes a reality for brave heroes and heroines to explore and dungeon delve. Victory and epic loot await the fearless and the fast, but for the weak of body and mind, there can be only ignominious death.
One way to gain coveted access to the first Neverwinter Beta Weekend is with a Hero of the North Founder's Pack. But don't fret! There are more ways yet to be revealed for hungry and anxious adventurers to join the Neverwinter Beta Weekends.
You may have also noticed that our Founder's Packs are not yet available for purchase. We took 20 on our Perception check and uncovered a few traps and several goblins. As a result, we temporarily delayed the start of our Founder's Pack sales while we slayed... um, addressed any outstanding issues.
For our Neverwinter fans looking to grab a Founder's Pack and secure guaranteed access to our Beta Weekends, the wait will be precious short.
Stay tuned to our homepage, ye Heroes of the North for the latest information on our Founder's Pack promotion. Keep an action ready because your turn is coming right up.
Sincerely,
The Neverwinter Team
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Err, so does that mean that hitting F5 today is silly (like it's not silly already)? Are we saying best check back tomorrow, or could the Founder's Packs go live today?
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Question: Do all of the items obtained through Founder's pack purchase carry through to game release?
All of Cmpinpointterror's posts specifically speak ONLY of beta. They never mention what happens AFTER beta.
Is this a beta-only promotion?
Let me answer your question with a question...
Do you honestly think that Cryptic or PW believes 6-9 days of beta with any amount of of digital content and/or diamonds would be worth $200 if it didn't carry over to release? Hell, if it didn't carry over the $200 wouldn't even be worth $20.
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Look at it this way. They haven't promised that everything WILL carry over to the live game. Those 750,000 Astral Diamonds? Are those going to be there when the game goes live too? I haven't seen it anywhere in writing yet. I was hoping to see something today, but it appears there were technical difficulties (although I don't understand why the detailed information just hasn't been released even sans the actual purchasing ability).
Absolutely. That's another big question that is easy to make assumptions about.
It's not wrong to want these promotional offers to be more transparent.
Exactly, I dont see why they should make you pay another $80 to get the other perks(other than to make money)
We really need more info
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Again going back to what others experienced with STO and CO, my guess would be yes. But again, the diamonds alone (the most expensive part of the package) is not worth more than $50.
Does it matter? The Starter pack gives one bag of holding to one character. The other to give bags to all of the characters on the account. So the Starter Pack really doesn't matter. They are already saying 5 slots total and 3 slots total for characters in the $200 and $60 packs, so I would guess that no, you do not get one more character slot for a total of 6 in the $200 pack. Same said for the 125,000 diamonds in the $60 pack going to the $200 pack.
And even if it did, it still wouldn't come up to $200 in goods.
In terms of feeling like I've been dealt with honestly, yes, it matters quite a lot. To me.
Note that the items they have listed in various spots differ greatly. The information they claim to have given Kotaku mentions an amulate and 6 other ingame items for the starter as well as other stuff for the other packages that was not listed in the post on here.
Personally, I think Kotaku wasn't supposed to release the info yet and Cryptic/PW hadn't finalized the info. They tried to rush it to get it out today but it couldn't get approved. I'm a dev for an e-mail marketing company. I see this kind of red tape BS all day long and I know just how... intelligent... marketers can be...
To the question from earlier about will it carry over. I've never seen a founders pack, or any prepurchase bonus that you got in beta, that didn't carry over into the real game. And I'm a sucker for CE and DE versions for MMOs.
On that note, I've also never seen a promotion like this where upgrading to the next package didn't also get you what was in the previous package. They don't want you to feel like you're losing something by upgrading and giving them more money.
I would be shocked if either one of those fears were true.
No, media sites are supposed to announce it first, MMORPG is just again incorrect.
If you paid full price for the lower package you have to pay full price for the higher one
You may only purchase one $60 and one $200 package per account if the Cryptic CO/STO
Also, and most importantly, all purchases will carry over through to the live game. You will have access to some of the package during the Beta Phases but items are not at a risk of being lost due to wipes. All purchases will carry over.
I never mentioned MMORPG. I used Kotaku as an example of how the founders pack items differed.
vs just the single small bag of Holding listed here.
EDIT: As a side note, this forum breaks when using characters it doesn't like. The dash and bullet points that Kotaku used in their post for example. It just cuts the text off at the first character it doesn't like even though it looks fine in preview.
I personally interpreted what TruthSeeker said as he has no information on upgrade paths. If you buy a $60 pack and 3 weeks later want to upgrade to the $200, he doesn't know if you have to pay the @200 or can just do $140. Also that you might not be allowed to purchase two packs.
I'm pretty new to these forums but it seems like the Community Moderators are really good at trying to relay info but their bosses shouldn't be handling marketing/information issues.
As for the testing, well, there are a LOT, and I mean a LOOT of other options for testing, including free or almost-free ones, so I really can't make a big deal out of them including beta keys in the founder packs. It's more like a small bonus than a defining feature, I think. Besides, the game's been in the development so long, and the hype hasn't been all that high, so I'm pretty sure that people who want to play the game know it by now
-The packs will absolutely, 100% carry over into the full launch.
-There are a few items from the Starter Kit that aren't available in the Hero of the North or Guardian of Neverwinter packs.
>>The Amulet of Protection in the Starter Kit is replaced with the Greycloak's Legacy in the Hero and Guardian packs.
>>The Small Bag of Holding is available in the Starter and Hero packs, but not the Guardian pack.
Hope this helps.
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I'm told that the items do stack. In the example you gave, with the mount and companion, buying both the Guardian and Hero packs would get you the Direwolf and Horse, plus the Panther and Armored Spider. In addition, many of the items in the packs do stack with each other, so you would get 875,000 Astral Diamonds. Some of the items in there may be account unlocks, though.
Now to go and give you my money...
So in order to get the Direwolf and Armored Horse and other stuff from the Guardian package, you have to buy the guardian package right? Even though you may have bought the Hero package?
As far as I understand it, each beta is only going to be for the weekend. So you get to play 3 days on 3 different beta's. This doesn't count open beta... who know what that's gonna be like.