Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Announcements about major changes in Haven & Hearth.

Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby epicless » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:05 pm

jorb wrote:The Store
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We've made some changes.
  • The store layout has been changed. Subscriptions are now presented before "Game Time", which in turn is presented last, and which has for that matter been renamed "Subscription Token".
  • Play Time is now awarded weekly instead of monthly.
  • Free Play Time has been increased from 12 hrs/month to 7 hours/week.
  • Verified Account Play Time has been increased from 24hrs/month to 14hrs/week.
  • Support Items (hats) are no longer lootable. If you buy an item in the store, or receive one with a subscription, it becomes rather a one-time permanent upgrade to your account. You can at any time withdraw or re-withdraw that item/hat from your Hearth Fire, and any other copies of it in the game world (on a wall, or whatever) should then disappear. Other characters cannot have your item/hat in their inventory, and should they try to take it, it will vanish in smoke.
We will continue to iterate on the monetization until we have something fair and balanced, and we want to make it a priority to implement alternative payment providers.

Thanks, jorb and loftar! These changes are great and should draw in a decent player base.

Some of my friends were telling me to quit already, but I think I'll give this game another chance! :D
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby August » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:19 pm

Avu wrote:Some of you won't be happy until the game is completely free to play without any kind of limitation. Can you provide a number of hours that will make you happy instead of just not enough try harder and crap like that?

Single payment about 10 $. And I will pay that only after initial time will be over, and we will see how much players remains.
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby JkLoser » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:29 pm

7 hours weekly is good enough if a pay2play model is something you want :) My biggest issue was before, 20min per day, or 1h per day for 12 days... wasn't worth for me. 7 hours a week, gives most of us the time we need, but not what we want, but the want part I can pay for :)
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby epicless » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:33 pm

jorb wrote:Party Arrows have been restored to full functionality, and can now be used to find friends.

Just saw this now. This is awesome!

I've been having a headache trying to find my friends.
jorb wrote:Today's Patch Item, for the fair price of $5, is the "Protest Sign".

Store description wrote:Image $5
Show up to the next game riot in style, with this thoughtful and politically concious message of social justice. The devs do indeed suck, and with this sign you can tell 'em, and tell 'em good.


All Gold level Subscribers have been awarded the "Protest Sign", free of charge.

Everyone's Play Time has been refilled up to seven hours, if you had less than that.

Enjoy!

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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby Geido » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:33 pm

Waaaayyyyyy better :) (not that I was whyning)
Keep up the good work.. Respect !
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby akadiablo » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:36 pm

So how to acquire Mirkwood Offering?
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby jorb » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:49 pm

Jeff wrote:By the way, just to be sure, the same rules for the hats apply to the sign as well, right? You can withdraw it at any time, vanished if looted, etc.?


Yes. It applies to everything but subscription tokens.
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby Amanda44 » Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:52 pm

Everyone's Play Time has been refilled up to seven hours, if you had less than that.


Should that show up here?

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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby burgingham » Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:06 pm

Since you have more than 7 remaining nothing happened to it then.
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Re: Game Development: A Sound Badgering

Postby jorb » Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:08 pm

burgingham wrote:Since you have more than 7 remaining nothing happened to it then.


This.
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