Exclusivity for Donators & Funders – A Sustainable Support Idea

[hhyyrylainen]

I just realized I should have replied here rather than: Credits for Benefits - #11 by hhyyrylainen

I’ll summarize my points from there here as well.

@Nightvamp

• Tiered supporter levels (Bronze / Silver / Gold, etc.)
• Public recognition (credits, supporter lists, special mentions)
• Exclusive Discord roles or titles

We have all of these basically setup. Both in the community discord and the community forum. And also in the game credits listed by Patron tier. Is there some place that is missing?

@Nightvamp

Early access, behind-the-scenes updates

Already have these. DevBuild and higher tier patrons get mostly weekly early preview builds (and they have access to our internal devbuild system and can play any version of the game). And also every patron gets a mostly weekly behind the scenes progress update written by me.

@Nightvamp

maybe even cosmetic-only perks

This is the only thing from your list that we don’t have.

What’s your suggestion on what this would be?

@Nightvamp

Youtube membership

Someone would need to make at least some youtube member exclusive content, because otherwise youtube members would literally get absolutely nothing…

@Nightvamp

Why we limiting ourselves with 1-5-15 euroes and not add 50 and 100 euro limited subscription and pretty special things according to that.For example choose one feature or in game something special to their username as a memory. Maybe a easter eggs ?

How / where would you set this up? A Kickstarter is a massive undertaking and a big reputation risk if we don’t hit the goal we set. A monthly Patreon pledge for a “one time” feature request would be quite weird in my opinion.

@Nightvamp

For example, I dont see any text or button or a visiual that promotes players to fund the game.

These are explicitly disabled in the Steam version due to Steam policies and I would need to be fully sure we are allowed to link the Patreon in a visible way to change that.

@Nightvamp

Adding something like, Support us button and giving a clear idea what will this support will go and what is our roadmap would help create more loyal funders.

I’m open to putting something like a funding goal on the left hand side that would in the non-Steam version have a more direct “Join our Patreon” button.