Hosting and Content Distribution Updates
Added 2023-03-28 16:58:02 +0000 UTCAll,
This is just a quick housekeeping update: I wanted to share a bit about what to expect for content delivery when Chapter 7 goes live.
As Chasing Sunsets has met and exceeded the Mega 5GB download limit for free accounts, and pirate sites have grown increasingly unscrupulous about bandwidth theft, we've been forced to reevaluate options for content distribution that will prioritize your launch day access.
We've identified an S3 cloud host that should offer rapid download speeds globally without inconveniencing players with download limits. In fact, it's live already!
Further, we've partnered with Itch.io to act as our distribution front end for Patreon. Don't worry, this portal works even you do not have an Itch account.
You will notice there is now a single download link in the stickied post and welcome note. This will validate your membership before directing you to a personalized download link:
While we're under no illusion this will have any effect on piracy, it should ensure you're not competing with non-supporters for release day access to the latest content.
We will announce our Subscribestar solution on that site when it is finalized.
We've partnered with Imatag for passive proliferation awareness, but we have no plans to add active DRM, nor will our software ever transmit data (anonymized or otherwise) back to the mothership for any reason. (The sole exception being SteamAPI for Achievements and platform integration.)
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ping us below or in Discord.
Thanks!
Stone Fox Studios
Comments
i agree i am supporting i think 18 now, some are still trying to make it , some Like these guy just demand my attention.. It would be hard for my 2 pick one Best Game. But the interplay i see here between other developers! Awsome. the pick of guess who i met on the dock,ergo Lexi was just mind blowing as i had played and loved that game as well. Sadly it ended :-( . was wanting to see more of that game.
Rellik6801
2023-04-21 03:42:55 +0000 UTCI have to say, I didn't know anything about your game before I downloaded it from one of those pirate sites (yeah, I'm a bad man, I know), but, those sites are essentially the reason why I played your game (cause it had a pretty good rating) and finally decided to support you on patreon afterwards (cause I understood why it had those ratings), and honestly many others in the AVN world, currently supporting 9. It's a growing world, fortunately because of quality producers like you, but again, most start on those sites because no one would know them otherwise. Not trying to be moralizing or anything, just stating where I (and I think most) come from. And I think until the AVNCU becomes even more recognized, once more and more people realize AVNs, especially those of Chasing Sunsets quality, aren't mere 'porn games', those sites will kind of remain 'necessary evil' to get that recognition.
Sasanid
2023-03-31 13:14:52 +0000 UTCA tactic like this would certainly invoke the law of unintended consequences, and we'd end up with a tech support nightmare at worst, and a subset of the AVN population who thought we wrote a bad VN at best. Seriously, though...The AVN community is pretty tight knight, and you'll see the same nicks across hundreds of servers. This is one of those cases where, good fences make good neighbors.
Stone Fox Studios
2023-03-30 01:22:32 +0000 UTC
