I think Uber could just clarify it more community friendly, and maybe lower the alpha price a bit since they don't get the goodies like us backers do. But they can't and won't allow alpha/beta access too low in appeal to quick fix gamers. Reason being:

1. If they open this precedence, people know they will do it again. So I'll just back low tier and get what I want and wait for Steam Early access. Eventually they won't be able to get funded on KickStarter. And that being the primary reason they can't lower the price, they want to continue business as usual like inXile and DoubleFine in KS.

2. Paying high price is like a commitment, you can think it as donation and forget about it, not participating alpha/beta as you like. Imagine that you set alpha price at low low $5, there will be hundreds of thousands complaining bugs and no slot on a alpha to play a broken game and lost interest. So instead of focused testing and maybe getting new mechanism out from alpha, they will be overwhelmed by supporting request. Yes, you essentially pay money to work for free, so the end product might be the one you really like and Uber profit. But I'll do the same for Larian.

3. Those people will buy it even if they say they are not going to buy it. For Uber's interest they just need to make a freaking kickass game. I think publishers already said harsher word to them than internet trolls could ever achieve, they won't give a damn to unreasonable requests. It's their entire company at steak to go KS, they want alpha/beta to be good, so no alpha will turn out good if it's not a controlled ones. PA and D:OS are both not open sandbox game like Minecraft.

4. Let people play early alpha with low entry barrier will definitely get them bad reputation and spread like crazy on internet. It wouldn't be just "that price is buillshit", it will be "this game is gonna be shit". I guess out more mature Larian forum goer will know what I mean.