Hi all,
I have offered the preview version of the game I'm currently working on (Nixy 2) as "$0 or donate". If I change the final version to "Paid", will the people who donated to the preview version be able to download the full version, or will they have to pay again? The file name will be different, in case it matters. Thanks.
On Itch, if a person donates equal to or more than the minimum value, they gain ownership of the project.
If you change the project type to paid, you do not alter the "ownership" status of the people who already have it, and those people will still be able to access the project files, no matter what the files are named before or after. (unless they are files with "Set a different price for this file")
Edit: My mistake. will be option 1.
When your game is free, any amount someone donates will get them a download key for ownership. This means that if people have donated to your free game 1 dollar, and you later put it for purchase at 10 dollars, they will still have access to the files
https://itch.io/t/41926/who-can-download-my-game-when-i-convert-it-from-free-to-...
Suggested donation value is just that. Suggested. Either you paid minimum price or above and gained ownership and have the game in your library - or not.
Think of it as buying the game on a discount. If you paid at all, you still have it purchased, even if the price changes. That is actually not hard to grasp. It only sounds complicated for all those pay what you want games that start at 0 amount. It does not count as a purchase if you download such a game without paying. But any amount at all does.
Should you have individually priced files, things get complicated. Mostly because there is no way to increase the paid amount later. Those files are completely separated from the rest of the purchase. You can only access them if you paid more than a fixed amount. They should completely overhaul this feature in favor of regular dlc. It confuses devs and buyers alike.
