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Hi, fellow gamer and MMO enthusiast!

As announced in the last update post, the exact date of our transition to free-to-play is now public! The day is…

Wednesday, November 20, at 3pm UTC!

Read on for all the details!

Why F2P?

As discussed in our Fall Roadmap, the reasoning behind this choice is simple: the current box price of the game ($15) is very low, especially in developing markets (where it’s discounted further on Steam), and only accounts for a minority of our revenues. At the same time, the fact a box price exists at all still acts as a major barrier to acquiring new users. This is made even harder by the presence of strong F2P competitors in the market.

Our initial plan was to transition in October already, but following community feedback we decided to postpone so we could get more content into the game. In this regard, we have a little update below.

Compensation

Needless to say, everyone who has purchased or will purchase the game paying the box price (be it on Steam or by buying a Founder Pack) will be compensated for the $15 they have spent!

More in detail, everyone will get 1 month of VIP time, except purchasers of the Eternal Founder Pack or higher, who already have lifetime VIP. They will instead receive the same dollar value in Dynamight Tokens (3750 tokens).

Everyone who received the month of VIP time will be able to activate it when they feel like. No forced activation.

Monetization

Once the game transitions to F2P, the item store and the VIP subscription will be our only sources of revenue. This has made some community members concerned that we could add P2W items to the store or VIP.

This is not happening: there are no changes planned to our store or VIP! What you see now in the game is what you’ll see once we’ve hit F2P. The only addition will be a second rewards track for VIP players taking part in Seasons, on top of the regular rewards track.

Also, there are no changes planned for Founder Packs, which will be renamed to Supporter Packs (a more fitting name for a released game). They’ll still be there to offer greater value compared to purchasing VIP and tokens separately!

Development Update

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We are glad to inform you that development of the features for the F2P launch is proceding on schedule.

• Guild Alliances are almost complete and set to go live next week together with a handful of bug fixes.
• Seasons are being worked on. The design and UI have been completed, as you can see from the image gallery above.
• The game’s Backend has been upgraded. It can now restart crashed server processes, which means that if it happens again that a portion of a continent “dies”, it will be “resurrected” in less than 5 minutes with no world and no player data loss. More upgrades will follow.

We’re getting ready, folk!

This is all. Stay tuned for the Guild Alliances patch next week!

Cheers!

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