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Sale? Question for existing customers

Hi guys,

I've been wrestling with this for a couple of days now and wanted to get people's opinions if you don't mind offering them.

This is obviously my fault and you don't owe me anything so thanks for even reading this.

Basically, I'm afraid that the game is actually getting less exposure now that the summer sale is on and I didn't have a launch sale as I decided to keep the base price low instead.

I would now like to put it on sale to let more people see it but I'm very worried that I'll upset people who have already bought it if I do so (i.e. you).

I know what it's like when you've just bought a game and then it goes on sale...

Please let me know what you think and if anyone who's bought it says that they wouldn't like me to then I won't do it.

I'm sorry if this comes across as needy or unprofessional; I just want to be as transparent as possible and your opinions mean the most to me when it comes to things like this.

If you would like it on sale or you don't mind, how much would you think is reasonable? Money is certainly not my motivation for doing this and if more people can come and join the community then I would much rather that.

Thanks again for your time,

Joe

Also, I'll have an update out tomorrow with some new powers that people have been requesting, as well as some refinements to existing ones. I was going to push it live tonight but just found some more bugs while testing and it is late (4am) so I need some sleep before work tomorrow.

Update (next day): Thanks for all of the replies. It seems that the response here and on Reddit has been overwhelmingly in favour of a sale so I'll try but have just been made aware that there is a minimum of 8 weeks between sale periods and the launch counts as one (probably to avoid upsetting early adopters).
So, I'm waiting to hear back but I'll aim for 15% based off of feedback if/when I can.

Thanks again.