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What determines whether any given release is the dev version or not? I found it quite convenient for viewing new content without having to search it out. Also, what are your team's feelings about a community that openly shares your payed content for free? I mean, you're clearly aware of it so I'm curious.
The dev version is something we give away to $25 backers and higher as a thank you for their support. Someone leaks it pretty frequently though.
On the whole, no one on the team can probably say they adore the fact that the Private builds are in the hands of pirates weeks before it goes public. It's a free game. None of the actual content additions are DLC or anything. Which makes the fact that people go out of their way to torrent it slightly more baffling.
But, real talk here. What are we going to do about it? Add DRM? Ha. Try to track down backers who leak somehow? Double ha. Try to shame people into not leaking or downloading? You get the idea.
The way I personally see it is that it's just going to keep happening. And at the end of the day, you guys are playing the game, talking about the game, posting about the game on message boards. Engagement and name recognition are core goals, so it's hardly an all around loss. And some people who were once pirates became backers or non-pirate participants in the community. So it's not the ideal form of participation and we distinctly do not endorse it, but we're pragmatic about it and we're not going to raise some kind serious fuss about it.
People will continue to pirate it and we'll keep on making a quality game. That's a status quo we can live with.
But yall gonna firstly introduce ntring futa roselin once you introduce the nemesis system right?
The details of Nemesis are not solid. I cannot comment on their release at this time.