Pax Dei is an upcoming new MMORPG that has many of us excited for it's social sandbox MMO design, and we got some freakin' news about Pax Dei adn an upcoming new Alpha test, this new trailer I'm showing here in the background, their discussion on how they plan to monetize Pax Dei, and the stats from their last Alpha test back in November, as well as Talk about an Early Access for anyone and more, so let's dive into the news for the new MMO on it's way : Pax Dei!
So, earlier this month, Pax Dei showed off this brand new trailer for the Nvidia CES 2024 event and they have announced that they do plan on doing Early Access for this Spring here in 2024 : Pax Dei is going to be using DLSS 3 for GeForce RTX cards to give it some amazing frame rates, and also they will be offering Pax Dei on GeForce Now for those that don't have a newer card in hopes that this will cover the majority of people, and give everyone an option to enjoy this new MMO in high quality. Now let's talk about this upcoming Alpha for Spring 2024 : The last Alpha back in November was the first time they got to see a slew of people get into the game and start testing and playing Pax Dei, and the team says it gave them a ton of valuable feedback so they can improve what they already have as well as helping them decide what to build next. Of course, they plan that once they can go into Early Access that they will get a permanent loop of feedback that will help them polish Pax Dei into a phenomenal MMORPG : And let's be honest, we need more sandbox MMOs that are of high quality and it's definitely something I think the genre and the fans of the MMO genre really have been thirsty as hell for.
Of course, when Alpha 2 is ready to go and more details emerge, I'll be talking about it here on the channel, but all we really know is that it's coming for Spring 2024 and will feature more content from the feedback they recieved from their first Alpha test.
Now let's talk about monetization because to be frank, this could make or break the game, and they've shared some info in a new blog and it's quite a bit of information so let's break it down. Before we talk about the details, of course, they haven't nailed it all wthe way down but here is where their heads are at to make sure Pax Dei is a good deal for us MMO players and will bring in enough income to support Paxs Dei, the servers, paying the team, and ensuring future development beyond launch :
They want to do a one-off purchase of the game, a regular fee for maintaining active player status and in-game plots.
Now, also in addition, they want to offer a free but limited access to discover the game : This will ensure that new players can come sample Pax Dei and decide if this is an MMO they want to buy : as well as offering a Token type system as well, now until we understand the full complexities of Pax Dei, it will be hard to understand how this TOken might work. But they do say they have some rules to ensure that the integrity of Pax Dei is kept with their monetization and the rules are as follows:
Rule #1: They don't do direct monetization of performance or time skips
Rule #2: The in-game economy stays 100% player-driven, anything sold with real money must not compete with the value produced in the player-crafting economy
Rule #3: The monetization model must be transparent : Easy to Understand and easy to get in and out
Now if they stick to these rules, they could design a very fair monetization model that doesn't drive players away, and of course, avoid the pay-to-win mechanics that ruin MMOs for the majority of players. Only time will tell how Pax Dei fully delivers on this, but it does sound like the seasoned MMO team, who have worked on both World of Warcraft and EVE online understand the complexities of monetization and we can only cross our fingers, give our feedback, and hope that they deliver something fair and balanced.
Now as far as Alpha 1 went : it was thier first public Alpha where 12 thousand players came into the game and tested out Pax Dei : and the main goals of the test were to test and stress their tech to improve and fix issues as well as testing the exploring, harvesting, crafting and building gampelay. Although combat was in a very rough stage and there were dungeons in the alpha, most of that content still needs a lot of work, and they are aware of that, and it sounds like with Alpha 2 we will see it in a better, but still unfinished state.
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