People aren't going to go be honest when it comes to downloading games, are you insane? People will ALWAYS find ways to pirate games, the only logical step is to provide an option for them to be downloaded for free. EVERY game will eventually be cracked, NO EXCEPTIONS. Devs can either accept this or not.
We do have a free download, with over 8 hours of gameplay, over a dozen scenes, and provides the demo to see if people want to support our project further or not... which is the main argument I can agree with in terms of "piracy" in that, you don't have a demo so you need to download the rip to see if you like it or not. It's also the primary argument I hear supporting privacy!
But we do provide a demo, one with 8 hours+ of content... and at the same time we are making an extensive project that requires a ton of resources, time, and dedication by the team.
And we could... make an uncrackable game, if we wanted to. There are ways to do it and some adult games actually do it now. They invalidate your game each update, they tag objects in the game with hidden keys, check back to servers, require logins etc. But we don't want to inconvenience the people who support us. So this mild bit of buffering is all we will do. We're extremely grateful and thankful of all our supporters, and to the people who pirate the game...
There are many with valid reasons. Some people honestly can't afford it and that's fine. Others are a bit uncertain due to other failed projects, while many don't know we offer a free demo to try it out and see if you want to support it. Some yet threw support at some point and might have put in the amount they feel it was worth and now follow the cracked version... and still, we thank these people for the support they gave us and we're going to be providing keys to people who supported X amount (TBD) with the full game. It'll be discounted to our final price of course.
But to people who just want to pirate the game and will never support us and plan to never support us... I mean, I'm not sorry that we have such a minor inconvenience. We need to eat, pay our rent, etc too.
Has anything new happened in the public version or is it still mostly behind supporter walls?
Atm the combat changes etc are the public updates, no new scenes yet. We need to figure out what our permanent public demo version should have in total content-wise! We DEFINITELY have more content that has to be added to the public demo, as we
plan to have fishing, CYOA text adventures, and a few other bits of side content. All these things need to be in the demo so people get a real feel and full taste for what the final version is.
I want to provide a LEGIT demo. Like the old ones people used to play at school LAN parties etc, Red Faction, Black Hawk Down, etc. Something that provides all the gameplay loops but excise the rest of the content so you just get more of what you love, not an incomplete fragment... a lot of live service/mobile games do that.
patreon wanted me to complete all this identity verification
