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"Nothing is Forever" will be on Steam next month, but chapter 7 won't, so I'm pausing billing for a month
Release on Steam
As some of you might have already noticed,
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This date was chosen taking into account a combination of factors ranging from wishlist numbers to boring tax reasons, and I believe it's the best one!
To those considering buying the game on Steam, I'm happy to announce that NiF will have Steam Achievements, Steam cloud Saving, and regional pricing. So, depending where you live, it might be considerably cheaper for you to get it there in comparison to on Patreon or Itch. It's a one time payment and you'll get all future updates at roughly the same time as Patreon or Itch costumers.
If you buy the game on Steam, please consider leaving a review. That's a very important factor to get on the good side of the Steam algorithm.
Chapter 7 won't be ready on November
I was hoping that I could have chapter 7 ready next month, perhaps even to release it at the same time as the Steam launch, but that clearly won't happen. I'm now pointing for a December release. I'm sorry for the delay.
I won't bill anyone on November
This development cycle was severely affected by the time spent on the steam release - things that might sound simple like making trailers, codding achievements, designing achievement icons, or even posing and rendering the animations from the previous mid-term update, took way more time than I expected. And I feel bad for my patrons that subscribe every month to see this delay due to things that they won't benefit from.
So, I decided that won't bill anyone on November since chapter 7 isn't ready for release. I think it's fair and it makes me sleep less stressed at night!
Besides that, nothing changes. I'll be working the same time as usual and will do my best to have the update ready for December.
Changing the subscription model so new patrons are billed after 30 days and not at the beginning of the following month
Earlier this year, Patreon created a new way to bill patrons and is throwing pop-ups everywhere to tell me to change to that model. As most things in Patreon, the changes are irreversible, which it always makes me nervous to change anything.
But it does seem like a good change for patrons. You might already be familiar with it if you subscribe to any creator that has already made the change. But if you aren't,
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The gist of it is that, right now, if anyone becomes a patron of NiF on, let's say, the 25th of October, they'd pay for October's subscription at full price, and then, on the 1st of November, they'd be billed again for that month, or lose access to all benefits if they stop the membership (like, for example, a download link if the game were to be released on November).
To me, it seems unfair that someone pays at full price for a month's membership just to lose all benefits 6 days later if they don't renew the subscription.
To help with that, Patreon created this new billing model, were that same patron mentioned above would keep their benefits until the 25th of November, and, at that point, be billed again for a new month, or stop the membership if they so wish. But, either way, they'd always get the 30 days subscription they paid for.
The only downside I see is that, if you subscribe to several creators at different days, you'll be getting billed by Patreon throughout the month instead of always at the 1st of the month, which can be annoying. If that's a problem to you, you can try to subscribe to all your favorite creators in the same day and then be billed for all of them at the same day.
To anyone that's already a patron, I believe you'll still be billed at the 1st of each month, (unless you stop and subscribe again later on), so, this change won't affect you in any way. It's just for new patrons.
All in all, I think this billing model is more consumer friendly and a positive change. So, I'm taking this opportunity to make this change.
However, if anyone has strong feelings against this, please let me know before I make this irreversible change! If the opinions are split, I can even run a poll to see what the majority prefers.
Thanks for the support and wish you all a fun and scary Halloween.
