An important matter

Hello everyone!

Today I wanted to adress something which has been brought to our attention by someone who reported this to me:

Apparently a person here on Patreon spread the newest version of Deathblight RPG (the Patreon version) to the public.

I'm obviously not going to provide any links, but let's just say it has already been uploaded to a few piracy websites out there. 

We're obviously not happy about this, but there's not much we can do about it.

It's not fair towards us as creators, as well as everyone who supports us on Patreon.

While the game is intended to be available for free for everyone sooner or later, this does take away the "incentive" to support us, as well as the reward for our Patrons.

You see, if people spread the Patreon version around, most likely we will get less support, because they can just download it elsewhere. This in turn means that it's actually going to hurt progress on the game, and thus everyone, in the long run (since we can't increase content production on it with such little support, we're already slow as it is right now).

And worst of all, some of these people didn't even credit or link to us as the creators. That's low.

I'm writing this because I politely want to ask for everyone to not share the Patreon version of Deathblight RPG with the public.

And before some accuse us of this: 

No, we're not greedy or anything, but game development is expensive and we're a team consisting of 3-4 people, so naturally, the less money we have at our disposal, the less work we are able to get done.

I'll just take this opportunity to address something I have seen thrown at us lately:

complaints about slow progress and little content.
(not here on patreon, but on some websites around the internet.)

The thing just is, that we're still not able to work full time on the game.

I (Cres) still need to do a lot of hired work and commissions to make ends meet and pay the bills.

In fact, I'm currently involved in another hentai game developer's project as a hired artist, alongside working on Deathblight RPG (while the other members on the team can't work on Deathblight RPG full-time either).

Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to share any details on said project at this point in time, since the other dev asked me to keep it under wraps for now (basically, I'm under NDA), but that just comes with doing hired commercial work on other people's projects, obviously.

I've been frequently hired for commercial projects in the past.
Though I'm not allowed to talk about most of them.

But to name one example that I'm allowed to talk about:
I worked for a browsergame named Tora no Tsubasa (one of the few I'm allowed to mention) for about 2 years, creating graphics in a different art style from my usual style, so most likely you won't recognize that I've worked on it.

Here's some proof of one of the (countless) artworks I've been working on for TnT (Tora no Tsubasa).

[click me! Or download the attachment]

If our Patreon grows more in size, we will be able to sink a lot more time into game development, meaning more and faster progress on Deathblight RPG.

I'll need to do less hired work, so instead of working on graphics for the games of other people, I can invest more time into Deathblight related stuff.

(same goes for the other members of our team, who can then bring more of their attention to DB RPG as well)

But naturally this is not going to work with the current level of funding. We can only work full time and speed things up, if we have enough money to support the living expenses of at least 3 people.

I hope you understand.

Don't worry, though. No matter what happens, we will invest as much of our time as possible into working on Deathblight RPG.

We will certainly not give up on this project and see this through to the end.

(And since this is something I have seen people accuse us of as well, just another quick addition: We do NOT just stop working on projects because we got bored and said "fuck this", every project we ever canceled was because they either 

a) didnt' find enough support and traction among our fans, or 

b) we ran out of money and didn't believe in the success of the project anymore. This was before Patreon came into existence, when Wolf invested his own money in game development back in the days.

Also, let's face it, we never wasted anyones money except our own on those canceled projects. But since we started using Patreon, this has changed, obviously. Now there is other peoples money in it, YOUR money, so we obviously won't abandon a project, unless you, the patrons, decide we should stop and develop something else via feedback or a voting or something.)

Anyway, that's about all I wanted to say on this topic. We are very grateful for all of our fans and patrons. You are the ones that make it possible for us to do what we love in the first place.

Thank you very much for all your support!
It really means the world to us.

P.S:

Since some people might not be aware of this:

There are some sites out there, supposedly giving out hentai games for free, though you might need a premium account for certain file-sharing services.

If you buy a premium account via their ref-link, they'll get a share of the revenue.

(which means, they get money for stealing and redistributing games)

Obviously none of the money goes to the developers behind these games.

So the pirates get money for basically doing nothing.

Giving out games as pirate "for free" is one thing.

But pirating games in order to profit from it themselves is a whole different story.

(instead of supporting the pirates with money, people should support the developers behind the games instead, since this will ensure that more games are being made in the future)