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Founders Packs. Ever bought any? How did go?

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CountAntonius

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These tend to be very early, very expensive and take a lot of good faith. Have you ever bought one? For what game, how much and any regrets?
 
Why would you do this? I got burned bad enough by Destiny being about 1/10th the planet sizes and story content they claimed was in it and then conveniently never mentioned had been cut. I blew $90 on the Diital Guardian Edition and regretted it
 
I bought the $200 Marvel Heroes founders pack years ago and thought it was well worth the price. People are still jealous of my animated symbiote spider-man.
 
Spent $100 on Warframe to get Excalibur Prime (and enough platinum to last a few years). No regrets.

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Everquest Next one at 100€, well it was for Everquest Landmark and supposed to help making Next.
Never played Landmark (heard it was awful then closed too) and Next got cancelled so it went horribly wrong. Huge buyer remorse.

I also had bad experience with Early Access cancellation so you can guess I can't trust those type of founding anymore.
 
I bought one for Blade and Soul. It went pretty well for some tens of hours, but it got boring (like all MMOs for me). Still, don't regret the purchase as I got what I wanted from it mostly.
 
Bought the $120 Legendary Founder's Pack for MechWarrior Online.

My line of thinking was: the base gameplay is pretty good, just needs more content and polish, how could it go wrong.

I will never buy another Founder's Pack.
 
Bought the Founder Pack for Paladins on the PS4. Was not disappointed. Sure you could unlock all the characters in due time, but I didn't feel like grinding. Game is hella fun.
 
Mechwarrior Online - wanted to get into the beta, and support the game. I still haven't used everything I got from it because the game went to shit long before they came close to fulfilling most of their promises. I can't say I didn't play a lot of it during alpha/beta, though.

Marvel Heroes - bought the $20 Rocket Raccoon pack early on. Kinda wish I'd bought the expensive founder pack with every character and permanent boosts, because I played liuke 800 hours of that game (mostly after they improved it in the rerelease).
 
Bought SW:tor box for 200.00. Bought lifetime sub to ST mmo. Lol i play neither. I buy all MMO founder/collectors edition.
 
In league of legends season 1 a found a french store on ebay selling retail copy. Regret it, cdkey is now worth hundreds since that exclusive skin is on it.
 
I bought the Paladins Founder's Pack on Steam.

I eventually dropped the game because they did some changes on the lootboxes and cards system, but I don't regret paying for every future hero since it wasn't particularly expensive and had fun before the overhaul
 
Spent $20 on the Founder's Pack for Paladins. Wound up getting bored and going back to Overwatch less than a week afterwards and I haven't returned a single time.

Never buying one again.
 
Tribes Ascend. Hi Rez made an awesome game and I wanted to support them, but then they kind of abandoned​ it and I felt like a sucker.
 
Bought one for Dragomon Hunter just to have an early access.

Game already had a shit ton of problems (especially with bots) in the first month. Already quit after three months.
 
Never really bought like a proper expensive Founder's Pack.

I did buy my way into the Path of Exile closed beta tho. It was worth it. <3
 
Paragon -- Minor regrets...

Marvel Heroes - PC - minor regrets because I can't hold a mouse consistently without pain

Marvel Heroes Omega - No regrets because this is what I wanted in the first place...
 
Marvel Heroes Black Panther founders pack. Well worth it since I put more than 1000 hours into that game in total. Haven't played it in a while now though.
 
faridmon said:
What is Founders pack? Some sort of complete edition for Online-only games?
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Tends to be for online games. More expensive than a standard version or free to play games. Tends to include alpha/beta access and various exclusive digital items and titles. It's a way for the community to help fund a game early on.
 
I got one of the mid-tier founders packs for Archeage when that came out a few years ago. I had a ton of fun with my friends while we played. Put lots of time into that game. I don't regret spending that money.
 
Bought the Paladins one. Good distraction from Overwatch since I'm now putting most of my time into that game when events are happening.
 
I did the warframe for Excalibur prime

And I have a lifetime sub to the secret world



Both......did not end up so well



Seems like LOTRO was the way to go



Edit: oh shit I forgot I had an Everquest landmark founders



God does that burn
 
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Bought several over the course of the first couple years early access was becoming popular. Felt this way eventually in all three cases.
 
I was very tempted to do Everquest Next founders but didn't. So happy I made that choice.

I'm also tempted to do a Dauntless founders pack but I think I'll wait
 
Paid $100 for the Everquest Next/Landmark founders pack in 2013, since I loved EQ1 so much (one of my top 5 most favorite games ever). Turned out to be a mistake since there wound up being like no updates on the progress of EQ Next over that time and it wound up getting quietly cancelled in 2016.

Lesson learned; I'll never do that again.
 
Ultimadrago said:
I bought one for Blade and Soul. It went pretty well for some tens of hours, but it got boring (like all MMOs for me). Still, don't regret the purchase as I got what I wanted from it mostly.
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Same game. Wish it came to a console. My pc didn't allow me to play as a kungfu user and everything else was boring to me.
 
I bought an $80 Elite Founder's Pack for MechWarrior Online. Even though the development of the game didn't progress as I hoped it would (it took them years to get to a baseline of what I'd have considered MVP for launch), I'm still glad I bought it. I've played the game for hundreds of hours (over 3600 matches under my belt).

In retrospect, I wish I'd gone for the higher pack, because then I'd have 3 more Founder's Mechs (which earn more money) especially now that the latest patch has removed the need for owning 3 variants of the same mech in order to reach "Mastery".

On the other hand, a friend of mine bought a founder's pack into MechWarrior Tactics, and if you want to see an absolute shitshow and scam of an early access, take a look at that game. For all of PGI's missteps, at least they were able to break away from Infinite Games Publishing and make something halfway decent of MWO.
 
My biggest buy-in failure was definitely Everquest Landmark, which I see a lot of in this thread. That was a bad decision considering that I've tried and been neutral towards/disliked several games in the EQ universe.

I'm not sure if they "count", but I'd rank these as better experiences:

Backed the Kickstarter for Stonehearth at a higer tier, which I don't regret at all despite the fact that I only play about 20 hours a year to check in on the updates.

FFXIV Legacy Member, which has paid for itself with the substantial subscription discount.

WoW CE, purchased before anyone had any idea the game was going to grow up to be a monster.

I also declined the lifetime subscription for LOTRO, which turned out to be the right move for me. Good game, just not the right fit.
 
Bought the Paladins Founder's Pack for $20 like others have also mentioned. I got it really early when there were only six or seven heroes so now that there's twenty-six it's really fleshed out. Admittedly I haven't hopped in for a few months but I do like being able to load it up whenever to just toy around and check out the new heroes. I'm just terrible at the game.
 
I paid $60 for the mid-tier founders pack for Warframe, which, for some reason strikes me as a good amount of money to pay for a video game.

I never spent another cent and felt like I got my money's worth easily a dozen times over. Definitely a positive experience there.
 
Did for Landmark -- I only bought into it for Next and a lot of shit happened during its dev cycle. And we all know what happened with Next. I ain't trippin over it.

I would've done the same for Warframe, too. I got into it six months after its release and I enjoyed it as much then as I do now. Hasn't been a game, since Landmark, that I have been willing to take a chance on.
 
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