Why do I need to pay for the Wild Terra? At the time of this articles publication, Wild Terra is in Early Access and is distributed as a buy to play game. We chose the buy to play model for server reasons.

• 1. Players willing to buy a game during the early access stages, generally do so with a desire to watch a game develop and be part of that process. They also do so with a general understanding that development is challenging and there will be bugs, problems and changes. A burden they are willing to accept as the games concept and end goals are truly appealing to them. These are the type of players we are excited to have involved. As this enables us to gather feedback, concepts and suggestions from a player base who are excited by precisely the same sort of game we are. Without this vital input the development of the game would be nearly impossible. Secondly, a lot of development time in alpha is put into refining and improving existing mechanics without players using these mechanics, reporting bugs and offering feedback; the time required would be exponentially longer.
• 2. If we had made Wild Terra free to play, would have been nearly incapable of developing it further. Simply put it would have become an impossible burden on a small team of developers. All our resources would have been poured into servers, technical support and ensuring a stable network. In turn adding to and improving the project would have become secondary.