Just a bunch of developers, out on a quest to create the best strategy games in the world!
You might ask why I write this post and not our community manager? Well, back in the days I used to create all the blogposts, write the tweets and edit the videos. These days I am however more focused on running the business development side of Lavapotion. With the amazing help from our community manager Anders and our Art Director Christian, I can now make sure to focus on what keeps the lights on and is hopefully best for the game and the team. But sometimes it feels important for me, as the CEO, to shine some light on where we are coming from, where we are at and where we are going!
I dare say we have come a long way since this screenshot was taken back in March 2017!
We have now spent over seven years of our lives creating our dream game. It has been a thrilling ride, to say the least! We are super excited to very soon announce the date of 1.0, along with a teaser trailer for the all new Barya campaign. But, the road doesn’t stop there, we have plans for more updates and other (still secret) things in the works. We love this game and we are blessed to have a great community engaging with us. All the feedback has helped us build a lovely game and all the revenue generated from the game has gone directly back into development. With that said, we think it is fair to do a slight price increase, to reflect the amount of content in the game. Four factions and four fully fledged campaigns (at the 1.0 release!) Conquest maps, Challenge maps, Random maps, Singleplayer, CO-OP, Multiplayer, Map Editor as well as a treasure trove of user created Maps, Mods and Campaigns. All of this, translated into 13 different languages, well, it is a huge beast to maneuver, and we’d like to think it is worth a price tag of $34.99 (which will be adjusted with Steam pricing policy for different regions). Furthermore, we plan to actively support the game over a long period after the 1.0 release, and we need to make sure that the income from the game can support the team salaries, cost for office, etc.
A sneak peek from the all new Barya campaign, coming very soon!
Finally, raising the price is my decision and not the team's decision. If you have questions: Ask away in the comments section! I’ll reply to my best extent! Expect lots of more news from us over the coming weeks as we prepare for the big 1.0! Thank you everyone who has supported us so far!
/Magnus and the Lavapotion Team
