So I HOPE that Selebus does not take this personally. Money will not give you happiness anyway. Praise be!
I don't really take it personally as there seems to be a bigger anti-piracy stance on this post than anywhere else on the site, which I am incredibly thankful for.
But I do wish people would stop being so delusional in assuming things like this don't damage the profitability of games when I have, on many occasions provided specific examples of support generated by leaked vs non-leaked versions of LiL.
The biggest factor in releasing consistent content is motivation. And it's admittedly a lot harder to stay motivated when you are consistently showing people exactly how certain actions can negatively influence a product only to have nothing change as a result.
People that download leaked versions
don't hurt the game and I'm glad they can't contain themselves in waiting for updates. That's great. They want it to succeed. Just don't spoil things for the people respectful enough to wait for public builds and we gucci.
People that personally
leak the game are an entirely different story. They don't want the game to succeed, they just want the dopamine hit that comes from their five minutes of being the cool guy who freely gave out a thing that was still going to be free in two weeks anyway.
I make a lot of fucking money. And I am very thankful to be making a lot of fucking money.
But, I also do a lot of fucking work- and I'm trying to raise the bar for what players should expect out of developers.
I am tired of other developers in this same industry milking their players for months, sometimes years at a time, without so much as an update. That's why I have a dedicated release schedule on the 1st of every month, so people can immediately be rewarded for their patronage in seeing that I
do care about and appreciate the support. It's why the current release will always be $5. It's why I added a
second monthly release after the full-time stretch goal was met.
This is my job.
But this is the Internet, and it's easy to fuck things up. So of course there will always be a person who is going to do just that.
Anyway, hello everyone and thank you for playing my video game. I will now go back into hiding until 0.18.0 Part 1.