Why people bought a game that's going free?

[Tickles]

I'm actually confused, Not asking in a negative way but I learnt that this game will be free once it's completed

Are you getting a rewarded once the game is out of Early Access status?
And will it be worth it?

[Maverick]

because I'd rather play now than a year down the road

[wano.]

I just bought it to play it early. I don't know anything about getting a reward when it fully releases but that doesn't matter to me anyways.

[Hauzer]

It probably won't be out for at least 6 months

You also get however much you spent in micro-transaction currency + whatever else the package comes with = worth it anyway if you want to play it seriously

[thestile]

I believe in supporting developers with my money. I don't even want handouts.
Good work deserves financial reward

[Ferral72]

got it to play the game early - also its still technically free, the cash spent on the early access, mainly gets you the MTX Coins with the bonus to play the early access. You need to spend the minimum EA Cost of $30 (equals 300 coins) regardless - so your mainly helping out with supporting GGG with the games development - with those 300 coins, i went and got additional stash tabs

[airpods]

Im supporting the developers because they are great. Also, the supporter packs are literally just microtransactions, so that means you get points to spend in the shop. Its the same benefit as spending 100s of hours in the f2p game and spending a little bit of money in game cause you enjoyed it a lot and put a lot of hours in.

[Chelios]

This game provides Terraria-esque value no matter what you pay, or don't pay. You can't go wrong. Almost nothing comes close.

[1EyedFatGuy]

It's called getting an invite. didn't pay a dime to play.

[XhanbaoX]

It is free, the 300 points you get is $30. same as the $480 one, the points is already the price itself.

[gachi is manly]

It's worth mentioning you're not just paying to play early.

The cheapest early access pack gives you 300 MTX coins. These coins can be used to buy extra stash space and other special stash tabs to make keeping your stash tidy a lot easier and quicker. You also need at least one premium stash tab to sell items.

So while the game is free and you can get a lot of time out of it without spending a dime, if you plan on playing for 150+ hours you'll likely want to spend a bit of cash to get some stash tabs.

[magnumaniac]

Originally posted by Tickles:

I'm actually confused, Not asking in a negative way but I learnt that this game will be free once it's completed

Are you getting a rewarded once the game is out of Early Access status?
And will it be worth it?

As others have said, for your $30 / £24 you get 300 in game points, which you can use to buy stash tabs or cosmetics. If you end up playing the game a lot, you will want at least that many points worth of stash tabs.

A lot of people got free access due to the amount they had spent in PoE 1 too.

[THE OCCULT GOD]

Originally posted by Tickles:

I'm actually confused, Not asking in a negative way but I learnt that this game will be free once it's completed

Are you getting a rewarded once the game is out of Early Access status?
And will it be worth it?

what if i passed away in a year... you do know nothing is guaranteed? this is why i partially made a purchase, on top of some other reasons.
is happiness, fun and more worth 30 dollars? you tell me. live now, not in the future, we live now.

[SINONS]

I wanna play as early as I can and I've been waiting for a good ARPG to release for a long time now because Diablo 4 sucks. I don't really mind paying $30 for a game that will go free because I wanna support GGG and I get to buy stash tabs and other tabs with the 300 currency I get with EA, so its a win win anyways for GGG and me, I get to play early and get stash tabs I'll buy in the long run anyways