(Future Fragments) Clarifying Tier Rewards (Patreon)

Hey, so I got this exit message from someone leaving the patreon a few days ago (it's anonymous, so i have no idea who left it);  

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"im now declining to support any more and will now with a half dozen of my friends choose to opt because of delaying releases times (around third time) . some donators had actually by this point of just donating 1 dollar have now successfully supported enough for your highest tier of award, others like me have now racked in your controbutions by the hundreds and are still looking to get the same reward/pleasure as those who donated once in the same tiers only. i will await the final game to be pushed out with the max rewards i was promised to be emailed. There had been tiers of goals that have been surpaased cumulative wise (if not monthly) to not be upheld."

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Just to be clear again for anyone who might have misunderstood (although this is all on the front page of the Patreon and has been for years);

There are no "cumulative" rewards besides getting the game at launch for $10 cumulatively pledged.

This is because the $30 tier costs money for us to make; in fact, it costs more than the $30 people pledge to it to record the voicework for it per databank (and if we make them an NPC, it costs even more than that).

For the $20 tiers, we pay 100% of the Voice Pack tier to the voice actress, and we pay 50% of the Soundtrack tier to the musician.

Additionally, if we did cumulative rewards for $10 and $30, there is a very high possibility we wouldn't be able to get everyone's name into the background or in a databank.

Making tier rewards cumulative would thus be a drain on resources far more than what we're already paying each month to commission SFX, voicework, music, etc. and thus development would actually slow down while we'd have to save up money to be able to pay said people.

To compensate for all of this, this is why we offer pledging once at a tier and getting that reward for life, never needing to pledge again; if we did cumulative rewards, we would need to raise tier amounts considerably to compensate for the above mentioned drain on resources.

Finally, if you haven't been emailed rewards and you're a new pledger or a past pledger, please email me and refer to this post; https://www.patreon.com/posts/26046414 

I do posts like this monthly reminding people to check their emails for reward emails, in hopes that people won't miss out on them.

We really don't want people to miss out on their pledge rewards, nor do we want to have people feeling unhappy with the money they've contributed towards the game, so if you would like a refund for any reason, please let us know :)

(As a last note, I'm not sure what they mean about delaying the demo three times; the last three demos have all been on time within the time frame we announced them as?)

Expect some neat stuff in a post coming up soon!