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Founders pack are now Neverwinter Packs?
ghostmatter
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Seems the Founder's pack might be on sale permanently. They are in the section "The Game" on the main website (not on the forums top menu though). Just written "Neverwinter pack" and the address does not say "founder's" anymore too: http://nw.perfectworld.com/neverwinterpack
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Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
You can buy every pack, or multiples of the $20 one, if you're so inclined. Probably better off spending the money just getting a larger bag though if you were going that route, since the amulet and potion pack aren't a long-term investment.
Neverwinter Census 2017
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Now I feel ripped off!
These packs were supposed to be unique and now they resell them under different name?!?! Too lazy to make something new?
Good bye Cryptic, good bye Perfect World, I will advise everyone NOT to play your games after this!
Contact support.
Please review my campaign and I'll return the favor.
You have to go into settings and change it. Doesn't show up automatically.
Neverwinter Census 2017
All posts pending disapproval by Cecilia
not sure if serious....
but if so... really? /This/ is what pushes you over the edge? Not the customer support issues, the zen prices, the bugs, the wacky economy with like 36 currencies?
Thank you for bringing amusement to my day.
First, new items will be added over time to the in-game store.
Second, why feel ripped off? I don't see a package title above your avie, but it you paid $200 or $60 to get a Founder's pack let's say a month ago, why would you care if someone paid the same amount to get the same thing (sans the Founder title) a month later?
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
How the hell can PW/Cryptic/Whoever excuse this...? I'd seriously be ashamed of myself, to work for such a company.
They even stated; "get the founder pack while you still can!" and in similar ways, conveying that the offer's days were numbered, especially close to the open launch june 20th. To make people rush to buy them? Cool with that. Basic sales strategy. If the Founders Packs had actually gone away.
This is beyond sneaky, and cheesy and so very low.... The forums are fascist thanks to a certain admin and now this, after all the bugs and borked fixes and wrong decisions theyve made this could-be-great game into... they dish out new idiotic zen companions we already have of the same classes, and continue the founders pack.
God, SO glad I didnt buy it (euro conversion was a rip off as it was).
$200 could have bought you 3-4 brand new games, but now, your "exclusivness" isn't even exclusive anymore. How's that spider mount, piece of <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> lvl 60 weapon / enchant, useless pet, and even more useless title treating ya? :rolleyes:
Exclusivity.
"I was there".
Having for others unobtainable things.
Countless reasons more, and even if you don't agree with them, they are valid to those that bought the packs, under the false pretense of them being the only ones who could have these things, since they payed 200-250 USD (depending on euro) for a game they knew little about but supported with wallet and hopes and beta testing.
What you're laughing at is people investing in a game they liked and hoped for the best, an action that help make others be able to play it at all in the future.
Personally I didnt buy a pack, but mocking those who did seems abit silly, and counterproductive.
Most intelligent folks saw this coming from a mile away. We even warned people on the forums not to pay for this cash grab of a game (multiple 50+ page threads until the <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> mods closed them):
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?180222-Server-crashed&p=2523182#post2523182
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?178612-I-acutally-enjoy-playing-Neverwinter-but-the-Greed-from-Cryptic-PWE-is-disgusting!&p=2532871#post2532871
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?178612-I-acutally-enjoy-playing-Neverwinter-but-the-Greed-from-Cryptic-PWE-is-disgusting!&p=2532042#post2532042
A lot of people didn't listen or was simply tricked by the PWE and Cryptic marketing hype. That's why I laugh. Any sensible MMO gamer would've seen exactly what they were going to do with this game (which is nothing). I also kept hope that they'd smarten up and attempt to improve the game in order to make more money. But alas, that wasn't the case.
Now they pull this <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>. That's why I'm laughing harder now.
Please review my campaign and I'll return the favor.
It's why I waited. I was expecting--and even asked on Twitter to no avail--to be alerted when the Founder's Packs would be no longer available. Crickets. No response. Am I bitter than the Founder Packs went without any date on knowing when they'd change from Founder to Neverwinter packs? Not really.
So I waited. And thought to myself, if they go away, then that's ok. And if I can still get them later, then that's ok too. I haven't bought one... yet. And still on the fence about it.
The only hate I could see over this is that people fell for the "while you still can" tag with the notice above the forums, etc. They never gave an end date. And you still have your in-game Founder tag which no one else can get now.
Quite a bit over the top there. What does a Founder Pack have to do with bugs, forums being "fascist", etc.? I think you just took the opportunity to rant. But whatever, I understand the rants you described just not the thread for it.
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
Get a bunch of guys to invest 200-250 dollars each in a game they know little about...
say its an exclusive pack only for Founders, wave the shinies in front of them....
then have them betatest it for free for you....
while they buy micro stuff like respecs in order to rest it, making you even more money during a beta...
all the while you say "get founders pack, while you still can!"....
Game launches officially (as half a game, ridden with bugs and exploits and the new content fails like GG).
Rename the 200-250 dollar pack and let it stay.
Add new Zen things in the store.
*claps*
Brilliant. So incredibly noble to. I bet "ethics" is their creed, just like "support" is the customer support's.
I don't think it was over the top, at all. I was making the point that this isn't the only sneaky or weak thing that has come out of Neverwinter, and that it all adds up, like someone previously even wrote, "what pushed over the edge", making it relevant and not only a rant.
+100 on this post, I think most people saw this coming as it's the best way for Cryptic/P.w.e to bring in a good chunk of money before and after launch. I have to say I am really glad I didn't buy the $200 package that's being offered that really would have sucked.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
Not really brilliant as it's done all the time (I know you were being sarcastic). Standard marketing practices. And it's not limited to big publishers either. Just take a look at all of the indie projects on Kick Starter or IndieGoGo. They do the same thing with "donation packages" that give you a lot fluff, shinnies, and promises. I don't know why you're surprised by all of this? Developer/publishers have been doing ever since they started releasing games with different versions (eg: collector's editions).
People fall for it, in the droves. I fall for it too. And sometimes that special edition/pack is worthwhile, sometimes not. It's all relative on what it means to you and if you play the game for just a couple months or years.
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
I agree, it is relevant for players who payed the $200 for an (Exclusive) package to be a tad upset.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
You took that out of context.
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
"Just because the other kiddies do it doesn't make it okay" should be enough of an answer to that.
Read what he/she qouted from my post. Read it a few times. Let it sink in. Ponder. Return.
True, but didn't you see this coming a mile away? Surely you're smart enough to pick that up, right?
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD
Some of you people get outraged at the dumbest things.
The only company I've not had to much of an issue with doing that is Blizzard. When I spend the extra money for a Deluxe box set their is a limit on how many they have to sale and once that numbers reached that's it. Yes, occasionally you will see a box set go back up for sale, but very rarely have I seen that happen in my 9 years of playing World of Warcraft.
I'm not sure people are so much (Surprised) as they are probably disappointed that Cryptic marketed the $200 package as being Exclusive.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
~Sholom Aleichem
Indeed. I think they're just POed at the game or Cryptic/PWE's handling of it and imprinting that anger or frustration on this rather minor incident. I don't blame them for the complaints about Cryptic/PWE (I have plenty of them too), just their choice of sharing that in an unrelated thread.
Hammerfist Clan. Jump into the Night: NW-DMXWRYTAD