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Progress update - Release schedule and some really bad news.
I'll start with the good news. I begin working on put everything together, this weekend. So, sometime next week, I'll release the first EA build.
That's the good news.
The terrible news... I just found out how much it would cost me to ship my PC intact.
3600$ CAD and that's with a 35% discount... Yes, you read it correctly. The price of an entire PC is what it will cost me to ship mine over there.
If I were to put a meter on my stress right now from 1 to 100, I'd say I have hit 110. I am barely able to focus on anything right now.
So, here is the situation. I'm planning for something around August (Flight). The reason for that is because Covid-19 restrictions are lifted in my country for summertime since tourism is their source of life, right now.
In other words, if I wait longer, I may be stuck here for god knows how long.
With that said, I have two real options right now. One: Raise the money to pay for the INSANE SHIPPING COSTS! Or two: Sell the entire system and rebuild it on the other side.
The second option sounds easy, right, right? Wrong! In my country, they were celebrating the arrival of the 3090 (stores were saying coming soon!) so exciting! In other words, if they don't even have a 3090, what are the chances they even know what an RTX A6000 looks like? Or finding a Threadripper 3960X and everything else I have work so hard to find/purchase over the years?
All I know is, the choice is now entirely up to you, and by you, I mean everyone who is reading this message, because I know these are read even outside Patreon. It's time to make a choice. Do you want me around to continue working on my games, or not?
If the answer is yes, then support me. Help me reach my goal for the next 2-3 months and I'll be able to afford the flight, shipping, the new monitors I'll need on the other side, and everything else I simply can't bring with me.
For nearly three years, I have truly enjoyed doing what I do and I am forever grateful to "you" the people who support me. But, this is not an easy choice for me, it has come down to choosing family, or my work.
As much as I love my work, and I do love it! My family needs me badly, right now.
For what it is worth... I really am sorry that it has come to this.
Because in a way, you, all of you... This community itself has been like a crazy, weird AF family to me, over the years. I would have never made it as far as I have without your support, and if I have to sell the system, you and I both know that 3-6 months without an update (no income or a system even) is "The dev is dead" And there is pretty much no coming back from that.
I'll try not to lose it, at least until this update is released...
Talk soon.