Forum Overview :: Galactic Civilizations :: Oh good, another forum of idiots who don't understand what the $100 is for.

[quote name="pinback"][quote name="gaggles of illiterate mugwumps on the internet"] $100 for an ALPHA!?!?!?!! You're PAYING THEM TO FIX THEIR GAME!!!!! RABBLE RABBLE SELF-RIGHTEOUS INDIGNANT RABBLE RABBLE!!!!! ALSO I CAN'T READ!!?!??!? [/quote] I realize this is pointless, since Caltrops has a long-standing, full-on, pulsating, vibrating hard-on for Brad and anything GC, but here, just for anyone who actually wants to understand what this is about: You are NOT PAYING $100 for the Alpha. I can prove this. Know how? I paid $100 for GalCiv 3 on <i>October 15, 2013</i> and I didn't get SQUAT. Not an ALPHA, not a fucking WALLPAPER, not a pinch on the ass from Brad, not <i>nothin'.</i> The $100 has always been for: - Preordering GC3 and all of its DLC/expansions <i>at what most likely will be a substantial discount over buying them when they come out.</i> - A few extra goodies for your faith. One of those few extra goodies is: Hey, you get the alpha build! Which isn't fun, isn't complete, isn't a good game, and was never supposed to be, if you'd <i>read anything</i> about it. But hey, it's just an extra goodie, for those who want to see how the game's developing, want to supply feedback, want to help make the game better in its early days. But that is NOT what you're paying them $100 for. You're just preordering all possible GC3 content, at a discount. So if you have faith that you will like the game, and that they will deliver the amount of DLC/expansions they are planning, it is YOU, SIR, who are a rube for not buying it now. If you don't have that faith, or you don't like the game (which you don't), then it makes no sense to buy it now OR later. I did, because I've bought everything GC-related that's ever existed, and loved all of it. [/quote]