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Since someone else mentioned a recent promo email, I'll ask what does this line mean:

"the game is free till I add the 5th boss. The current version of the game will then become the demo for the game after that."

If I download it now, is it the full game?  Will it work after the 5th?  If what's up now is the full game, why not make it claimable? What happens if people want to download (maybe again) afterwards?

I appreciate the promotion, but it's a little confusing, so please clarify.  Thank you.

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hi sorry about the confusion I just wanted to be upfront that the full project won't be free. What I'm going to do is continue to update the game for free on itch.io till I add the 6th boss in. Then I'm going to make the version with the 6th boss cost $3 and the version with 5 bosses will be a free playable demo and will always be free to download. When I add the 6th boss in I'm going to upload the game to steam and charge $3 for it and sell steam keys on itch.io here for the same price. Due to steams terms and services I have to charge the same amount for the keys on all sites if I didn't have to do this then I would leave the game for free on itch.io. Now that iv typed this out though I think I might just continue to update the demo as well. so you can play it for free through the demo or choose to support me by buying a steam key.

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that seems exceptionally odd, since mindustry doesn't follow that whole thing.

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They don't have to fallow it because they aren't selling steam keys on itch.io. They are giving the game away and leaving a link in the description to there steam page so you can buy it on steam. Witch is a good way to do it. I wanted to sell the steam keys on itch.io  though because if I sell the keys on here steam doesn't take 30% of the sale i only have to pay itch.io 10%. Also on itch.io if i wanted to i have access to a slider that alows me to decide how much of a cut itch.io takes i can let them take 50% or i can give them nothing. So sence im selling the steam keys on itch.io I have to fallow steams rules or I won't be able to sell my game on steam. And there number 1 rule is that you can't sell steam keys for cheaper then they are available on steam. I left the full game as a demo so if you don't want to pay you can still play without having to pirate the game and possibly get malware. I understand it's strange so I'm trying to be as transparent as possible as to why I'm doing it this way.

yea, i just still find it odd how steam did it on you is all, the game is very nice though

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Also no this is in no way the full version of the game i plan on adding a lot of updates over time. This is a in development project.

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Thank you.