Again, WotR doesn't cost anywhere near $114, so yet another exaggeration (not you @KillerRabbit).
I have backed WotR on kickstarter and as such had the opportunity to upgrade to beta access. It was over a 100$ at that time, which was over the budget for me, so I didn't. Beta access cost more than the game price. BG3 EA was the price of the normal game edition by comparison (I remember it was the same price as the Cyberpunk game).
Ah but see, that is not what he said. Furthermore, paying to crowd-fund a game is fundamentally different from paying retail for a game. Every single game I have crowd-funded through KS or Fig I have *contributed* (which is what you are doing when you crowd-fund something) far more than what I would have paid if I'd waited to buy the game retail. It is perfectly normal for a KS campaign to try and generate more funds by putting beta access at a higher funding tier level, to use people wanting to get into the beta as leverage to try and get more funding for the game. That is a perfectly normal and logical thing to do.
Both the KS and Pre-order(post KS) of the game was still $114 if you wanted to get into early access. So yeah I meant what I meant. You can even google search articles which talk about the $114 for early access which you had to fork over if you wanted in. It would make sense if early access was at a lower tier so more can get in.
