When does Bronze and Free tier get access?
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Sorry, Homie! I may have given the game out for super cheap/free once upon a time, but as a dirt-poor developer, it's absolutely impossible to continue like that if I want to keep the game in development, let alone keep a roof over my head. And let me tell you, I'm already cutting it really close. Not trying to be rude, it's just that giving away 8 months of hard work for free is not sustainable for me. Mentally, or financially. I can only skip so many meals, you know what I mean...
So you have two support tiers that don't even get access to the story? What's the point of supporting then? True, I have been on the free tier for Patreon, and only paid 6 bucks on itch. But I would have gone to a paid tier. Honestly, when I paid on itch, I didn't have a job at the time. I like the story and would have supported it. But I pay something like $150 a month in Patreon subscriptions. even at 2 - 5 bucks a month they add up. Funding is limited. You could have just made the price on itch 10 or 15 and that would have been fair. I'd have paid that probably. Even now, I could just pay the $6 and get the game 5 days after release then unsubscribe. But to me that's shittier than choosing to not support a game you like by only floating on the initial price I paid the first time and not paying again. I'll still recommend Homelander, I guess I just won't be reading it anymore.
I'm genuinely sorry. I realise it doesn't seem fair, but Itch isn't really a welcoming platform for adult content anymore. The last time I checked, I literally can't sell my game here because of their rules, not because it's my choice. The only reason I still have my game on here at all is because it's a free 'demo', and at least for the moment, that's deemed acceptable by the payment-processing overlords. The update post is available as a 'one-time purchase' with the price matching the current subscription price, so you can avoid all the tedium of subbing and unsubbing. I know it's not quite the same, but I'm doing the best I can with the limited platforms I have available to me.
Also, the lower tiers were originally created to receive the updates as well, but it was a naive and completely unsustainable decision that my inexperienced baby-dev brain didn't think through when I first started this journey. When I upped the unlock tier, I didn't want to delete the lower tiers entirely, so now they're just 'supporter' tiers that receive benefits like polls and holiday renders.