bought the game a couple months back for $2.00 + $0.38 VAT (50% off), but now the most recent version isn't available to me anymore. Huh, never saw a situation like that before, I guess the dev increased the price?
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It's probably the system's fault because of the donation based model. As for the price, yes I increased it for two reasons. 1 as the game getting closer to the 100% (finished project) the price going up slowly it will probably end up on 10-12 Dollar since I plan to bring my game to Steam as well. 2 compared to my Support platforms (Patreon/Subscribestar) I get a very little part of the money here. Since i have 30% tax withholding rate and then comes the other fees that's mean i earn almost less than half of the support I get here. I hope you find the explanation useful sorry for the troubles.
Oh, I don't mind you increasing the price. It makes sense if you keep adding stuff to the game. Its just weird that itch.io keeps telling me that I bought the game and yet withholds the paid version. And instead of paying the difference between the new price and what I already payed, it forces me to cough up the full 6$ again.
Handing over 2 or 3 $ for every major update (like once every 4 months or so?) is fine, but paying 4$ now, 6$ 6 Months later and 12$ another 6 Months later is just not cool for us early supporters. Its like an early access game on steam that keeps getting more expensive the more content it gets, but forces everyone to buy the most recent version at full price again.
I'm sorry, but I don't plan to buy the game a second, third or fourth time like this. Just feels wrong.
I actually agree with your reasoning. I didn't know that you would need to pay the full price again. Or even necessary to pay again since as you said, you already purchased it once. i will try to look around to find similar issues and maybe find a solution. The worst scenario i just create a new buyable option with the final price so no one need to buy it at full price again. You can also try to contract Itch if you want. I write again if I find something useful.