New DLC
Hey everyone!!
I would like to announce Zeepkist's first paid DLC:
King's Day DLC
King's Day is an annual Dutch holiday where we celebrate the birthday of our king!
This day usually involves heavy partying across the entire Netherlands, dressing up in a lot of orange, and wearing a bunch of orange hats!
So of course, I couldn't just let this day pass by without dropping some King's Day swag in Zeepkist!
You can find the DLC here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1962260/Zeepkist__Kings_Day_DLC/
The King's Day DLC will launch with a 33% launch discount.
The Contents
The DLC contains 9 hats and 13 zeepkists:
Why DLC?
I'd also like to take this opportunity for a bit of transparency, and why I've chosen to add DLC.
Originally, Zeepkist was meant to be offline only. Meaning you'd just have singleplayer and local split-screen multiplayer. This also meant that my expenses were non-recurring. I paid development costs once and then didn't need to worry about upkeep of any servers or anything.
However, after launch it quickly became apparent that players were really eager to also have online multiplayer. I hadn't planned for this because online multiplayer is notoriously difficult to program well. (Which turned out to be true, it took me about 3 months to actually develop online multiplayer).
But anyway, online multiplayer was added. And with this came the cost of running servers!
Every player costs me an amount of money each year. It's a recurring cost. This means that every year I'll need to keep making money to keep Zeepkist running.
Some games pay for this upkeep with a subscription model, other games use loot-boxes or purchasing of in-game currency. Personally, I'm a fan of keeping it as simple as possible: DLC that gets released every now and then to pay for server upkeep.
It means that if you want to support Zeepkist server upkeep and look swag, you can buy some DLC. And if not, then that's fine too.
I intend for DLC to be cosmetic only, so that you'll still be able to enjoy the entire game as it was meant to be by only buying the base-game.
I feel this is the most fair way to deal with the costs of online multiplayer, and I hope people enjoy the exclusive cosmetic content :)
Happy Zeepkisting!!
