Everything bundle?

[Galdred]

I played the game a little and liked it, but I dislike the quests=>gold=>collectible model after having played too many CCG (Duelyst and Card Hunter. I liked both, but could not justify grinding gold or paying for cards).
Do you plan to have an unlock everything bundle that would grant access to all items, except campaign locked stuff?
Something like Faeria had.

[Melwing]

No it isn't f2p, nor did he say it was.

[Red Unit Studios]

galdred, we never mentioned that WB is gonna be a F2P someday, 'cause it's not. =)
So short answer in no.

[Galdred]

But then, won't you provide way to purchase gold with real money?

[FieserMoep]

I hope that ultimatly the ingame currency will be balanced and enjoyable for what you make ingame by playing.

[Red Unit Studios]

Originally posted by galdred:

But then, won't you provide way to purchase gold with real money?

That's definitely a F2P feature. So not in any circumstances.)

[FieserMoep]

That is nice to hear and reenforces my choice to actually pay upfront for this game.

[Red Unit Studios]

To be honest..
Still not sure if we ever gonna sell our boosters Hearthstone way. Maybe when we'll have enough content like all >40 missions of main campaign, >15 arenas, crafting, and bunch of other starter stuff. Then it can possibly happen. But you'll have to levelup your units in battles anyway.

[Thuzar]

Originally posted by Red Unit Studios:

To be honest..
Still not sure if we ever gonna sell our boosters Hearthstone way. Maybe when we'll have enough content like all >40 missions of main campaign, >15 arenas, crafting, and bunch of other starter stuff. Then it can possibly happen. But you'll have to levelup your units in battles anyway.

You shouldn't be thinking about selling boosters for real money if you are already planning for the game to be on "buy only" basis. Think this through while you are still in Early Access, lest you find yourselves perplexed by the fact that the game tanked in spite of its quite prominent qualities (well designed board game, with tactical approach to battles and gorgeous art).

One approach to this issue may be solved by offering the first campaign or two free-of-charge to early adopters (players who buy the game in Early Access), while offering the game as F2P upon official (gold) launch. Seriously, I cannot think of any game that you had to buy and then had to invest even further by buying booster packs from the online store (well,with the exception of previous digital "Magic: The Gathering" games - but you ain't a famous company nor are you Wizards of the Coast, aside from the fact that those games tanked due to the above mentioned "buy the game upfront then spend 10x more money on card packs" system).

[FieserMoep]

I kinda agree on this.
The market is rather saturated with F2P TCGs and it would be a shame if people would be driven away even further and never make it to the Wargame aspect that is rather solid so far.

The mentality of the consumer is quite set on the topic. Either you pay upfront and THEN for some major content that goes beyond simple additions to keep the game alive. I for example would pay a bit for campaigns that use existings models and mechanics yet offer some nice alternative gameplay and maybe act like a pseudo-booster for they award some coins or units like the tutorial did. One only has to be carefull that this would not be misunderstood as pay to win and all these rewards are availalbe in the current RNG based boosters. For a campaign/addon that introduce a new mechanics or a line of new units (As you mentioned somewhere else Protuguese for example) I would even pay a little bit more.

The other model would be a F2P entry that heavily relies on grind and, as a short cut, offers the option to buy those boosters. A model I personaly do not like.

[Galdred]

Indeed, selling boosters would sound too F2P-ey. It would be better to sell DLC with extra units, cards and/or missions that can be later be unlocked through playing.
Something to consider could be to have cars assigned to a given warband (if these are not paid), to have the unlock mechanism make each warband unique (instead of converging to everyone having everything), a bit like they do with Mordheim.