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Vagrus: The Riven Realms - Chunky DLCs and Price Increases

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    [​IMG]Lost Pilgrims Studio explain their pricing policy:

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    Chunky DLCs and Price Increases

    Hey everyone,

    This week we'd like to broach a matter for the sake of transparency. Reality in the context of global gaming industry trends has set in, and the result is hard times for everyone. We are no exception and, since we have an insatiable desire for creating quality DLCs, this has left us in a rather precarious situation.

    Financially, our DLCs need to break even for it to make sense for us to produce them. Indie game development is a passion, that's true, but it's also a business that needs to sustain itself and the developers. To that end, we have decided to increase the price of our Sunfire and Moonshadow expansion (SaM), along with the Season Pass, which will of course only affect future purchases.

    A Little Background

    We were halfway through the development of SaM when we knew that its scope had grown far beyond what we had originally planned. We were, however, happy with the path it had taken, and wanted to keep a consistent quality throughout as well as enough "bang for your buck".

    Player feedback has vindicated its length and quality, with some saying that the expansion's breadth encompassed hundreds of hours of additional gameplay. We are happy for it to have had so much good feedback, but there remains an issue.

    Sales

    Our revenue predictions were spot-on, but due to the increased scope of the expansion, our costs were far higher than expected. With inflation ravaging our studio much like it has most of the world's economy, the expansion was very expensive for us indeed. This is why we will be increasing its price.

    Old Acquaintances

    This DLC took longer than we expected, but by this point, we had already learned our lessons from the previous expansion. Again, we put in a great deal of extra time and added many additional features, as it would seem we cannot help ourselves. Thus, we set a realistic price - one that we intend to keep the same. Unfortunately, however, sales on this DLC were not as high as we would have hoped.

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