Originally Posted by
theWocky
He says he isn't.
Note the "gift pack" contains items for level 65 only. The game goes up to 70. I guess they felt guilty about people paying so much for so little.
On launch, your 40 bucks buys you:
* Only 2 new dungeons,
* no raid, (the one that will eventually be released will only be a 10 man)
* 4 zones,
* severe nerfing of support class versatility,
* gating content via gear behind an expensive RNG secondary stat system
* putting rep purchase items behind RNG
* nerfing of minion card system - with no compensation to people that paid for more minions.
* basically making all secondary stats based on RNG
* having so-called "legendary" abilities that are still not finished (we are 1 day to launch)
* majority of empty servers - with a weird "load balancing" thing that puts everyone (French, German, English) on one server - they claim it's not about making the game not look dead, but rather "load balancing" - you figure that out.
* still very heavy handed forum moderation where you get banned for "trolling/baiting" when you weren't - just offering a critique - nothing has changed.
I mean, to be a competitive raider, you need to spend at least US$90 to get into the game as the US$40 doesn't include most of the new souls / talent trees.