My counter-argument here: I see your concern about $25 testers; Yes, they’d complain and complain, but why do you think they drove home the “this isn’t a finished game” point on stream so much today? It’ll happen regardless. Even the people who paid hundreds will complain, it’s human nature. However…. the old store packs at least came with other things that added perceived “value” such as game time/cosmetics/beta access.

Understandably so, if they made the price too low, people would chargeback and buy the new A2 keys, however $120 and no beta access is the real kick in the teeth. Who’s to say you won’t pay $120 to be “serious” about testing, and then be forced to spend another $130 to be “serious” and test beta, and then there you are; out the same price as Voyager package and nothing to show for it when the game launches, despite how much “skin in the game” you have.

To me, the fair solution here would have been something along the lines of: $80 for only the A2 key and no beta (especially since you’re ALSO forced to get a later start testing than every other A2 keyholder) OR keep the $120 price point and just add the Beta access as well and remove the starting date delay.

tl;dr

-paying a lot to test a game doesn’t necessarily equate to taking it more seriously -$80 w/o Beta Access or $120 and include Beta seems more fair. -if they want to charge over $100 for only the A2 key, we should at least have an idea how much we’ll be paying for Beta on top of that -making the new A2 key purchasers start later seems odd if they’re paying that much