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Hello there.

I admit that I hadn't really considered such a bundle, or even a sale for the end of the pandemic. Technically, the sale I ran from April to the beginning of May was the biggest discount I had ever done, and the description definitely included some "Stay inside, make games instead" sort of language, and I don't want to have multiple sales really close together, particularly for similar reasons, because that can lead to consumer confusion, and sometimes people refunding bundles or individual plugins to buy the newest bundle as it's a slightly better deal, maybe.

Speaking of confusion, one main reason why I can't see myself doing a collaborative bundle with Irina or Olivia is that many of their plugins aren't strictly compatible with my own, and the majority of the others haven't been tested. If we somehow came together and made a giant collaborative bundle, it'd come with the caveat that several of the plugins included in it may  (nay, most likely will) not be compatible with each other, and I feel like that is going to lead to large influx of people who didn't read, or didn't know, making support posts in all of our channels asking for support that we will not be able to give. And since it's particularly difficult to held hold of Irina and Olivia, and I don't think either of them do much in the way of plugin support, a lot of those posts are going to fall to me, and I simply won't be able to help. 

In the end, that's probably going to lead to some refunds, realistically, and that isn't helping anyone involved. Customers get a bad taste in their mouth, the three of us get harassed, and everyone pays for it. Not to mention the possible fall-out, if word gets around that someone got a refund on the whole bundle because it wasn't compatible and they felt ripped off, maybe more people who bought the bundle get refunds too? It's a slam dunk, and then a bunch of people have some plugins they didn't even pay money for.

The other reason for not doing something like this is a bit more simple. I don't have any way to communicate with Irina or Olivia. Both of them make it very difficult to talk to them, especially about plugins. DMs on discord are blocked, and I don't share any servers in common with them that allow me to talk to either of them. If there is some sort of secret discord server that the disciples of Yanfly communicate on, I am not privy to it, unfortunately. Both of them have comments on their individual plugins turned off, and no community forum here. And both of them seem to ignore DMs and posts on the RPGMakerWeb website in their plugin support topics. With no special way for me, as a creator, to get in contact with either of them, there's no way for me to approach them and set up a deal like this in the first place. I might be open to such a deal if one of them approached me about it, but we'd have to iron out how the obvious incompatibilities of our plugins will be handled.

That being said, I appreciate the thought you put into your request, and I don't mind that it's asked publicly. For reference though, I can be reached on Discord via DM (Ramza#3215), I have a support topic linked on my profile here on the RPGMakerWeb forums as well, although that topic is kind of dead, necroposting it is alright., and I also respond to DMs on that site as well, which you don't need a certain number of posts or like to send.