Tree of Savior starts tomorrow in Early Access, wants to lower the costs of founder packages and talks about regional server options.
Early Access: As few servers as possible, as many as needed
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Tomorrow, the founder servers of Tree of Savior will open, as the Early Access phase officially starts on March 29, which can be accessed by purchasing founder packages. In Europe, the founder packages cost €10 (the smallest), €28 (the medium), and €46 (the largest). The main point of all packages is early access to the game. All early access buyers can play for one month before the free-to-play players join in. We have already dealt with the exact contents of the various founder packages in this article.
Those who do not want to purchase a founder package now should perhaps wait until April 21. Because then the packages will be reduced by 30% in price to compensate for the “reduced time in the early access phase.” Players will still have a week to play before the game officially starts on April 28, 2016.
According to IMCGAMES, the “optimal number of players per server has been determined to ensure a reasonable launch.” However, if there is a sudden, sharp increase in the number of players, they do have some servers in “standby” mode that could be added at short notice. As promised, they want to prevent wait times but at the same time ensure that all servers have a healthy load so there will not be “dead” servers.
Regional servers and character transfers
By the way, developers are aware that many fans want regional servers to have a better connection and thus lower latency. However, this is “currently not supported by Steam” and there is no work being done on it. They promise, however, that if there are ever regional servers, they want to provide players with a free transfer and not charge any money for it. In general, this is a nice promise, but tied to a very uncertain “If, then” condition.
Finally, a small graphic was published showing in the form of a pie chart where “Tree of Savior” has sold best on Steam.
For more news and articles about the free-to-play MMORPG, you can find them on our Tree of Savior news site.
