One day to go!
Just one more day until we release the first chapter of Heaven's Door to our Silver and up patrons! Our beta testers have combed through the build, our composer has sent us the last few songs for the chapter, and Slockie has (mostly) finished coding. It's just a matter of a few finishing touches and it'll be out to you all!
With that in mind, we wanted to give you a quick update on a major change to our Patreon page: you may have noticed already, but we've unpublished the "Tip Jar" tier. This means that no new patrons can join at that level, but those of you already pledged can continue to do so and receive the benefits involved.
Unfortunately, with the way Patreon is set up, most of that $1 was going to them. To make a Tip Jar tier feasible we'd have to up it to $3, and since we already had a $5 tier it made little sense to introduce another tier just a couple of bucks lower.
We apologize if this is frustrating to those of you who wanted to support but can't afford more than a small amount every month, and we understand if some of you might be turned off from pledging because the minimum is $5. We're both fully aware how tight budgets can be, and if this means you can't pledge, or can't pledge for more than a month at a time, that's entirely reasonable. We appreciate you being here regardless.
We are looking at other ways to make our current tiers a better value for all of you, without imposing a huge time sink on Slockie or overpromising on things we might not be able to follow through with. It's a work in progress, but if you have ideas we'd love to hear them.
Thanks for being here, and look for our release announcement tomorrow. See you all then!
Comments (8)
Sadly, Heaven's Door was too good and now I feel the "when is the next update" itch that I last felt when I finished Bare Witness...MOAR!
With the difference in currencies, the $5 tier is $7.50 here. A bit too rich to run year round for my budget. Hmm... I will have to get creative here.
Just like the last project, I'm sure it will be awesome!! Good luck! ❤️
Good luck devs
Thanks. Have to wait a few days more, but looking forward to play it. :-)
Good luck with the release.
🎶 "IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!" 🎶 ⏳️ Genevieve 😍😋! As for the current Tier system. I think it's great. Reasonable. The only thing I can think of is recreating the lower Tiers, but they get a big delayed access to the game. $3 is delayed by 10 days, and $1 is delayed by 15-20 days. They both get no access to the WPs, just Patreon updates, Previews (maybe), and Discord roles.
Even $2.5 or $3 with no game access and just dev logs will work I think. The idea is, that in markets with lower currency value, like Canada for example, the cost goes up from TipJar $18 to Bronze $90 CAD/year. That's big gap between the two tiers. Keep in mind that many supporters sit in the TipJar tier and upgrade to Bronze/Silver only when a new update drops like in this month. So now anyone who had upgraded is shutout and can't go back. There is no easy answer to this, I would say it is very unfortunate that Patreon is making that tier useless.
