Patreon goal reached! Huge thanks and small glimps in the future
Hello everyone! With the latest update to Launchbuddy our community has now reached a new milestone.
First of all a big shoutout to all of you for supporting this project and giving such great constructive feedback.
Without your help it would not have been possible to make this project what it is today.
Watching this project grow and seeing that my invested time and skills are worshipped like that was something I only could have dreamed of!
Launchbuddy has now officially reached a stable community and support to make this project grow even bigger.
Therefore I am ready and willing to invest even more than just time.
So what is the plan?
- Finally buying a Code Signing Certificate to make Launchbuddy a trusted software.
This investment is costing arround 200-300$/year. With a certificate like that LB now can get rid of the annoying "Do you really trust this Sofwtare" windows popups,
Antivirus false positives are massively reduced and Windows will hopefully no longer flag LB as "potentialy unwanted software" (yes thats a thing, Microsoft support answered me that I should buy a license from them (800$/year) to remove this)
- Website and Database features. Moving on Launchbuddy will now also tap into the networking potential of an official server (144$/year). Downloads from github and the versionswitcher features of LB will all stay the same. However new features like user shared presets,configurations and statistics could be linked or shared.
My list of possible features is currently beeing evaluated and I will give you a info BEFORE development of these starts. Current focus is still on stability and bugfixes before new bigger features are implemented.
- Patreon exclusive versions are now a constant priority. Moving on patreon users will now have always the lead on the newest LB versions. This means that as soon as version 3.2 is finished patreon users will be able to get it right away, while the official release will switch from 3.0 to 3.1 (and uploaded to github).
Feature wishes and enhanced will be regulary summarized in small discussion rounds after each release. As always patreon suggestions will be prioritized. This measurement is here to further grand patrons their earned rewards and also keep the new maintenance costs of Launchbuddy in check.
Let's get this project even further to reach the never ending goal of making Launchbuddy the most advanced Gw2 launcher. :)
Greetings TheCheatsrichter
Comments (2)
Really happy you reached your Goal ! i love Launchbuddy so much, i cant do without it. I still have a problem with accounts updates, i hope it gets solved in next versions
Hey! Thank you so much for your support. If you feel like it / have time for it I would like to dicuss which issues you had with the newest version so I can fix them asap :)
