Dear Denizens of Issilith!
Making a game like Phageborn we know how critical it is to make sure we focus on keeping true to our community while making a game that you can be proud to play. The key to this is providing you with reasons to keep coming back and that means we need to be able to make sure we can continue to develop content for the game.
We passionately believe it's important to delve deeper into the lore, give you exciting and challenging missions, explore the history of the factions, and other cool features over time. Doing this requires constant development and we have to make sure that we are able to give you the best experience we can, rewarding you for coming with us on this thrilling journey, and make the game better for everyone playing. At the end of the day, we want to make sure we can keep working on a game you enjoy playing, and that we love making.
We need to find a way to support the game based on the value we deliver to you the players. That’s just not possible with a single up-front price for the game. Instead we want to find a way to unlock the game for everyone, and support the game by making exceptional content experiences that you love and that keeps you playing over and over again.
So we are planning to drop the up-front price and instead move to a Battle Pass Model which rewards actually playing the game. But we think its vital that we make sure that everyone who has supported us so far gets treated like the champions they are!
So here is what we are planning…
***Importantly this is an ongoing discussion***
We are not going to sell Card Packs!
We have listened to you and understand that for many of you it's important that we don’t sell ‘booster packs’ of cards (unlike many other card games). Instead, we will continue to make sure that you can unlock cards through ‘Seal Trees’ earned from playing the game; learning them and mastering as you go. We will share more about how ‘Seal Trees’ work in future posts!!
We are going to add Battle Passes
The game will have a set of missions updated each week that will allow you to unlock content as part of each Battle Pass that everyone can take part in. That means that anyone can earn items from the Battle Pass no matter what. But there will be extra missions for you if you buy the Battle Pass as well.
A key thing here is that you can unlock what you want from the Pass when you want to, either as soon as you can or taking your time getting to the other items whilst the Pass is still active. Special items may sometimes be locked behind levels or specific quests , but if you have your eye on an especially shiny cosmetic for your favourite Avatar, it's up to you if you want to grab that first! What is in each Battle Pass will change too, but we want to make sure that it is deeply tied into the story and built on the Lore. We even plan on having some in-game events that will spice up how you play, all linked to the Battle Pass that is going at the time.
BattlePasses will include:
- New Cards (obtainable by everyone – no pay to win)
- New Battlegrounds (each with unique music)
- New Avatar Skins
- New Foils
- New Avatar voice lines
- …and many more new things that we haven’t introduced yet (We don’t want to spoil everything).
Everyone who has bought the game before 20th of April 2022 will get a Founders Pass
If you have bought our game up until the 20th of April 2022 you will permanently unlock the following:
- Ability to create a Guild (Anyone can join one)
- Access to Ranked mode queue
- Uncapped deck slots (We are still designing how many slots premium players will have)
- Special Founder’s tag
- Unique King Tyberiuth skin
- …other perks we are still designing
But most importantly ***you will get the first year’s Battle Passes included for free!!***
Anyone can play for FREE
We want to make the game available for everyone. We will do so at full release of the game for anyone to play but free players will have some restrictions. These include:
- Not being able to create a guild (but able to join)
- Only access to the Casual mode Queue
- Capped Deck slots (Again we are still exploring the numbers)
- Normal quests only
But! We are also looking at offering players a one-time purchase option to unlock these restrictions, whether or not they buy a BattlePass - we would love to know what you think?
Also! We are thinking about whether we should offer people who didn’t manage to unlock some items from the previous month’s Battle Pass to be able to pay for what they missed? Certain items would only be available from playing missions in the game.
We want to hear what you think about this.
Comment below or join our Discord channel (Discord) and join the ongoing discussion with your questions, thoughts, and feedback.
Yours truly,
Games Revolted