Tier Adjustment and MTWY's Future

There's no easy way to say this, so here's Hikari with the puppy dog's sad eyes.

I've been sitting on this post for several hours now, and I still don't know how to deliver it, but I believe this is something we have to do.

As some of you may have read on Discord, I've been planning on adjusting the release of the latest update for the bronze tier to be 14–15 days behind the higher tiers. I've had a few founders and silvers voice their opinion in the channel or in DMs since then, but I also want to hear from the bronze tiers since it mainly affects them. Implementation of this new release format doesn't take effect until Chapter 22 is out exclusively, so we'll have time to discuss this further and brainstorm to see if there's another way.

With the way, the development has been going, with bigger chapters and better quality in almost everything. I believe I should value my work more, especially with the amount of time and effort spent on it increasing significantly as we move further along.

I love making this game; I couldn't separate from developing it, even for a day, but I also feel like the effort-to-reward ratio is staggeringly low and the lack of resources is bleeding over the other responsibilities that I have with the more time I put on MTWY, and I can't help it, I was hoping at this point that MTWY would at least be able to cover those, but I understand that we needed time to prove ourselves. However, I think right now, with all the recent updates and significant pushes we've made, we've already got something to show for it.

Honestly speaking, this issue is also affecting the game; there are a few scenes from back then that I wanted to address further but couldn't. I had to make do and push it over to the next chapter's development schedule or put it on the back burner.

As to why we're only changing it now, I was clueless about how much the platform fees were per tier, and after the fees are deducted, we don't actually get much from the bronze tier—an oversight on our part anyway. We understand that the platform needs to operate.

Also, if you look at the silver tier, it includes the monthly MTWY artwork and polls both here and in our Discord server, and most of them are great.

I know this is a tough pill to swallow, and if it blows up in our faces instead of doing what we intended for it to do, then so be it. *crosses fingers* I hope it doesn't. Anyway, if you think right now that our game is amazing, even with our limited time and resources, then I ask, "What do you think we could do if we had more?"

Anyhow, we're doing a big push on the promotion today, here's the trailer video that we made for it, on Youtube, and here are 4k MTWY Public Wallpapers and GIFS made downloadable if you fancy them.