Got $2,500? Trion Starts Selling Trove Support Packs
Trove was only announced 10 days ago, but if you want to start throwing money at it, Trion Worlds won't stop you!
Today Trion opened up the option to purchase Support Packs for the upcoming voxel-based MMO, in seven denominations: $5, $20, $50, $100, $200, $1,000 (whoah), and $2,500 (WHOAH). Each package comes with a number of Supporter Credits, which will be usable in the in-game store, as well as guaranteed alpha and beta access (except for the $5 "Scout" package, which only guarantees beta access).
Feeling generous? The $2,500 "Voxel Savant" packages will ensure an item in the world is named after you -- also part of the $1,000 "Pixel Master" package, and you'll also be able to develop your own biome alongside the dev team. At this point, the deal sounds more like the high-end rewards from a Kickstarter project than an MMO pre-purchase package, but if Trion can get someone to pony up that kind of coin, more power to them.
Are you planning to spend early on Trove? If so, what package do you think you'll go for? And could you ever envision yourself shelling out thousands of dollars on a game you've never even played, no matter how awesome it looked?
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All I see now is a money grab.
Trion doesn't have a god damn clue when it comes to maintaining their games. They'll try ride a hype train on this for some profit and then when it's half-dead they'll move on to their next game.
Though the idea is good, I think the timing is bad. This idea could have been developed years ago, yet nobody cared to do it. The reason it's such bad timing is because I think Everquest Next Landmark will be the next big thing when it comes to the super sandbox genre. The concept is similar to minecraft but far more detailed and still easy to create things; I don't think this game will be successful after the launch of EQN.
Trion one which is a blatant ripoff of minecraft....orrr
Everquest Landmark which looks a billion times better, has much more creation and exploration possibilities not to mention the massive community, and a company with a proven track record for developing games.
Not a very hard choice.
Perhaps only those who have tetris instead of a proper pc... ok, but then they expect tetris owners to pay 1-2k$? nice joke.
Anyways... i want more games like baldur's gate, neverwinter nights... why don't trion try to make something like that instead of trying to make a game more fit for a tetris. Sigh~ oh well, it's their turf.
I used to go look for F2Ps games all the time but this days they all look the play the same way to me except for your occasional 2-3 games hyped F2P games that come out a year other than that most are just cash cows,also the communities are pretty bad lol one of the reason I prefer subcriptions or B2P games nowadays.
Haven't seen a good f2p game for some time now..none that I like.
I'm not even sure why Trion would even attempt to make such a trashy game, it's honestly expected from Indie companies, but as I recall, the only game they've actually made somewhat successful was Rift, and even that being a total World of Warcraft ripoff (Hate WoW As well), Rift didn't do too well going Free to Play almost a year later.
Here's a little advice to Trion Worlds; You only have one game that succeeded, and neglect the other titles which "Could" be good, such as Defiance, which was a pretty amazing game in my eyes, but to to lack of content, negligence, and maintenance, that game also died fast. Work more on titles you currently own, and stop trying to rip off every good idea you couldn't come up with.
My future prediction is "Trove" is going to be a big disaster, and I certainly wouldn't even be tempted at paying even $5, knowing it's going to bomb.
Man, Trion is turning into a joke of a company.... Minecraft... Really...?