Backing the Game after Kickstarter

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Circling back around to the original topic of this post, if you missed out on the Kickstarter you can now back the game and get access to the Closed Alpha/Beta if you want to, or you can pre-order the game now at a discount.

If you go to your Account page, if you’re on the Free Account, you’ll now see a button that says “Upgrade Your Account.” Clicking it will bring up a payment form where you can choose your tier and then pledge.

The available tiers are Backer (which gets you the game for $30 now before the price increases later), Founder, Epic Founder, and Merchant. We’re not offering the other tiers at this time (such as Inner Circle, Legendary Founder, or Loremaster). The price of the tiers are the same as the non-Early Bird tiers from Kickstarter, and they do come with most of the stuff from the Kickstarter, such as the House Deed and Fellowship Certificate. However, they do not come with the Pet Dragon or confetti cannon that the Kickstarter backers will receive, since those were KS-only rewards.

Let me know if anyone runs into any trouble while pledging, but it should be pretty straightforward. Thanks!

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Is it possible to upgrade to merchant or higher if you are already an epic founder?

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I will add some code today so that you can upgrade from Backer -> Founder/Epic, Founder -> Epic/Merchant, Epic -> Merchant, while getting credit for your previous tier.

We aren’t offering anything higher than Merchant, though, going forward.

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So no chance to go to Mythic then? :wink:

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Haha, not anymore :slight_smile:

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I have just pushed out the code to enable those upgrades between tiers.

So now if you are a Backer, you can pay the $20 difference to become a Founder, or the $70 difference to become an Epic Founder. Same thing for Founder -> Epic Founder or Merchant.

I did not put in code to upgrade from the Epic Founder tier (or Loremaster) to Merchant, since there were so many different Epic Founder levels and Early Birds and whatnot, and my assumption is that there will be very few people who want to go higher than Epic Founder. If you do want to upgrade from Epic Founder or Loremaster to Merchant, send me a PM and we can work something out.

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I’m confused on the founder stuff. So I got the “epic founder” pack, is that the same as what the $100 kickstarter backer is?
Thx!
Ps. Can’t wait!

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Yes, except you only get alpha access and above and not all the other kickstarter rewards

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If you backed the Epic Founder off the website (not during the Kickstarter), you get:

  • Closed Alpha
  • Closed Beta
  • Copy of the game when it launches
  • Fellowship Certificate
  • House Deed
  • Epic Founder hat / Founder hat / Backer hat

Notably, you don’t get the Dragon pet that was included via the Kickstarter stretch goals, as that was a Kickstarter-exclusive item.

Thanks!

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Oh, sorry for the misinformation then. Thought that it was only alpha access.

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No worries. It’s listed on the upgrade form too so people know what they’re getting but you can’t see that since you’re already an Epic Founder.

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When’s the last day I can upgrade from the 30$ base game to the founder? I want to wait until the end of the month… is the last day going to be the 17th to upgrade?

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No you’ll be able to upgrade from Backer (Base Game) -> Founder at any time. The only thing that’s changing on the 18th is that the cost of becoming a base level backer will increase $10.