Post by Matthew L. Hornbostel in If I add more assets to a bundle, will people who already bought it get the new items?

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True.

The people who bought before the bundle was updated would need to return to the page to download the updated version.

They will have access to it, but only if they return to the asset page and download the revised version.

This is why following an asset creator can be critical. I have 140+ followers now and those are the set of customers who notice when a significant asset pack update gets posted. Other past buyers tend to miss out. And it's a bit of a shame because some of those updates are quite substantial. One of my texture packs is now almost 3x bigger than when it first launched. Some of my 3d asset packs are like that too.

The followers see the updates in the itch feed. They are actually notified of updates. So that seems to matter a lot.

-Matthew H, matthornb.itch.io

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redonihunter22 hours ago(+1)

The people who bought before the bundle was updated would need to return to the page to download the updated version.

You sure? OP said the opposite. It does not work this way. The projects in a bundle are frozen at the time of purchase. If you add projects to the bundle later, those do not exist in the updated version of the purchased bundle.

It probably is due to this:

Every purchase or donation comes with a unique download page assigned to your transaction.

You will get a unique page containing purchased items from that bundle - from the moment of your purchase. You will not get the bundle page itself as a purchased item. From your purchase history you will see that you have bought the bundle. But the page you will see, is not the current bundle page, but your own unique download page.

So this is bad (or good), if you re-use bundle pages to release something like a vn in chapters and maintain a bundle that holds all chapters at a discount (you would add new chapters and increase the price of the bundle). People that bought chapter 1,2,3 in the bundle would not be able to later access the new chapters. But they would also not be able to purchase only the new chapters with a discount. If one intends to release something this way, it would be better to use the workaround OP detailed. Doing it on a single project page, and not with bundles. But it depends on what you want to actually achieve.

Itch does not handle duplicate purchases well. In contrast, if you buy a bundle on Steam, it will refund any duplicate items. You can utilize this, if a bundle has a discount and you already own most of the items in the bundle. The remaining items will have the bundle discount and you will only pay for the remaining items.

While Itch has pay what you want and those individually priced files, they do not have a way to increase your purchase tier, like buying it twice. And I am still unsure, how the purchase tier is handled, if the game was bought in a bundle or at a discount. Or a discounted bundle with discounted items.

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