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Feature Wanted: Allow creators to deny access to select Patreon tiers.

A topic by ytester created Sep 21, 2019 Views: 279
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Imagine I'm trying to sell 3 games separately. 

  • 1$ - Racing Game
  • 3$ - Puzzle Game
  • 5$ - Platformer Game

If a person buys the Platformer Game...  I want them to only receive that game. The other 2 games are not included in that purchase.  I'd want the same user to pay additionally for the other 2 games.

The Problem:

The way itch,io is currently set up: there's no way I can exclude  users with certain patreon tiers from getting products that are  not a part of their tier rewards.  For example, if I wanted to offer the Racer game to people who are only in the 1$ patreon tier.... It's possible a person  who's in the 7$ tier can get that game for free if they find or create a link key to it.   

This is terrible for me because I find itch.io to be the perfect platform for conducting my business and my customers enjoy using this website among others.  If this feature was added, I predict my profits would  soar and more customers  would join my patreon.  It'd be a win-win-win all around!

Proposed Solution / My Idea:

I want a new feature added to "Edit Project > Distribute > Patreon Access" A feature that allows the creator of a project to deny certain Patreon Tiers from claiming a key for a project not intended for them.  (I'm surprised that this feature isn't here already, I  hope itch.io considers adding it as soon as possible.)

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