Poll Results, and the Resulting Change - 3/26/22 (Patreon)

First, I want to thank each and every one of you! Out of the 78 current patrons, 49 of you voted in the poll. That's more than 60% engagement (more or less) and honestly, I'm pretty happy with the poll's turnout.

Second, the results of the poll itself. With 33 of you voting for the "Quality over Quantity" approach and 16 of you voting indifferently and choosing to trust in my judgement, that more than blows the whopping 0 votes of 2-monthly-updates out of the water. (I didn't intend for indifferent to be just another vote for 1-a-month, but I think I could make a far better product for y'all like that)!

This means that, starting with the first of April, I'll be moving to the once-a-month schedule, uploading a new day at the start of every month. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope you all are too! Also, on account of this new schedule and a few other things I've straightened out behind the scenes, I can now give you a (rough) estimate of when I believe the final (...maybe) update of Sihai will be! Or rather, when the end of the main story will be. I could definitely add in some bonus episodes after the fact and polish it up some more.

Set your dates because at the incredible pace of 1 update a month, Sihai's Legacy should leave its legacy on May 1st, 2029!

But, on top of that, I should mention my other plans (which I have continued to develop)

(I'll attach this as an attachment so y'all can have a closer look at them if you want)

The Thirteenth Hour will most likely be the first in a new scheme I've come up with. I said before that I wanted to make a new patreon for this game, but you know what? I don't want to! That's too much of a hassle and besides, the nature of the game doesn't exactly lend itself well to anything more than a tip box...

So with that in mind, I thought instead about making this game for free, and simply attaching this Patreon as a tip box! But that's not all, no. This is just (hopefully) the first of many! I don't just want to create VNs, I also want to branch out and explore, using smaller games like this as a testing ground for my future passion project (the as-of-yet-unnamed-"billyverse").

This itself will more than likely have a few complications involved with it.

First: The $2 patron tier'll probably be reworked to include access to the discord server *with* the express idea of the F2P content of my other games. In effect, it means the current Sihai discord server will be adjusted to accommodate sections devoted to a particular game. Sihai content, however, will remain as it is right now (with the more "spoilerey" channels being $4 or up.

Second: I'll try to rebrand this Patreon not just as Sihai but rather as me, with a focus on Sihai. That means I'll have to come up with a nice, non-copyrighted name to umbrella all over my games. 

This all won't happen overnight, though. I still have to make another game in the first place before any of this is remotely relevant. Thought I'd be transparent with you all though!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you're looking forward to what I'm cookup up, Sihai or not!