I'm not gonna lie, being able to practice playing the game is a bizarre paywall. Feels like one of the first things you should show someone with interest in the game/a good training grounds haha.

Did anyone pay for patron specifically to get access to alpha? That feels like that would be a very rare circumstance and would be the only reason to keep it paywalled. Most of us got it because we like the game and were down to throw some bucks on it.