Hello Adventurers!
"Update?!"
Not yet, JoePlayer. Soon ™
No doubt you’ve noticed we’ve been rather quiet lately, and it’s been a while since the last update. I can assure you that this is by design. Because coming up - wait for it - we are going - still wait for it - to be launching full release.
"Ooooo exciting!"
It is. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes in order to make the full release the best and richest update we’ve ever had. I can’t go into specifics regarding what’s in it… But… if you can keep a secret - I might be able to just drop something right here...
Oh wups - is that a teaser screenshot? Oh - how did that get there?
"Coooool!"
I see what you did there… Ok… On to important matters.
Pricing Changes
"Wait, what?"
Here is where we get to the difficult part of the conversation. With full release, we have always been planning on raising the price of the product, and launching Day 1 with a sale. (No, we’re not going to double the price or anything crazy like that)
However, steam has restrictions on changing the price of a product, and adding a sale at the same time. These rules are publicly listed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/discounts
This means that we are not able to change to full release pricing and a sale on Day 1.
Faced with these restrictions: we have decided to increase the price of the product now, in order to facilitate a Day 1 sale as well.
Rather than do this behind the scenes, and face possible backlash: we wanted to be honest, and forthcoming and tell you what our plan is, and why we’re doing it.
We will be increasing the price tomorrow Friday March 9 to $20 USD. If the new price is not acceptable to you right now, then we encourage you to purchase the game before tomorrow, or wait for the Day 1 full release and launch sale. We apologize for the short notice of this, and ideally we wish we could have given more.
Final thoughts
We’re really proud of the game, ourselves, and our amazing community whose feedback is indispensable. The future can be frightening, but it’s so exciting as well. And yes we already have plans for more after full release.
Sincerely
IronOak Games