We've Added More Prizes to our Reward Tiers!
Dear friends,
We've been chatting with a lot of our backers and potential backers about the reward tiers, and have listened to your suggestions. We spent some time trying to figure out how best to reward our early adopters -- to figure out what would make sense both for adopters and for the health of the game economy when we launch.
We are pleased to announce two things:
First, we are introducing a new limited edition Kickstarter set of cards to Chromancer. This set, called Kickstarter Exclusive, consists of all the same cards in our 300-card release set, but with special and unique card design. Theonly way to get cards from this set will be to be a Kickstarter backer. Once Kickstarter is over, we will not create any more copies of this set! The cards will be tradable like everything else, but of course will increase in value over time. Note that all of the already-existing rewards still include cards from our regular set, The Primeval™. The Kickstarter Exclusive cards are only available in the Kickstarter Exclusive booster packs being added to every tier as explained below.
Second, we are adding Kickstarter Exclusive booster packs to every single reward tier in such a way that the rewards get better as the tiers go up. These are 7-card booster packs just like normal, but all the cards in them are from the exclusive set. Note that players will not be required to open these packs: you can keep them, unopened, as long as you want after the game is launched, and you can trade them still unopened farther down the line if you so desire. After the Kickstarter is over, we will release the information on the unique print run that covers this set of cards for all players so everyone knows exactly how many there are (and ever will be) in existence.
Here's how the new rewards break down:
FAQ's
• Why are you giving away so many boosters?
Although we make these kinds decisions based on our own game economics, and we never take them lightly, other recently Kickstarted games in our industry have set a precedent for generous reward tiers. It has driven the amount of rewards we were planning to give out higher than expected -- but when we think about it, we couldn't be happier than to reward the most important people in this project: You, the backers. If it means that a backer of this project is going to have an extra nice bonus when the game goes live, we consider that a good thing.
• Why make these boosters limited-edition?
We are passionate about the importance of our persistent virtual goods model of game economics. When card collection was invented with baseball cards more than 50 years ago, the same concept was central: and nowadays any collector worth his salt knows the value of the original, early print sets. The same is true in collectible card games, and the move online should not lose that important nuance.
We want this Kickstarter Exclusive edition of cards to be a rarity as our game grows, so that our Kickstarter backers really have something special at their fingertips. Just the way those few who realized Magic was something special in the mid-90s now are sitting on incredibly sought-after Alpha print run cards, we want it to be our backers to have the same privilege years down the line.
• Are all of the cards offered in the reward tiers now part of this new set?
No. The reward tiers have not changed. All of the Kickstarter Exclusive booster packs listed here are bonus cards on top of everything else in the reward tiers. The prizes within the tiers themselves are still alpha-edition boosters from our launch set, The Primeval™, which will be the same type of booster that we launch with this winter. The only possible way to acquire these Kickstarter Exclusive cards, therefore, will be through these boosters listed above as prizes. Or to trade with a player for some of them later on.
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