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So The Arcana’s pricing scheme is exploitative and terrible and I’m astonished nobody is talking about it.

The standard response from the developers is that all of the paid content is ‘optional’, but you know what I want out of my romance game? Romance. 90% of which is paid content.

Also, this assumes I don’t want to pay for the game. Except I do! I backed it on kickstarter! I want to give these people my money. But I also don’t want to be bled dry.

This isn’t even getting into how the kickstarter promised backers the game itself as a reward, then reneged on their promise, offering a paltry $10 refund to make up for it (which will buy you a grant total of 1 chapter for 1 character’s route). 

This kind of business practice hurts other kickstarter projects down the road, because it erodes people’s trust in the platform. A lot of indie otome game devs rely on kickstarter. But my experience with The Arcana has sure made me think twice about supporting any other projects.

The worst thing is I like the Arcana. The art is gorgeous, the characters are fun. I supported it on Kickstarter. I told my friends to support it on Kickstarter. But I can no longer turn a blind eye to how Nyx Hydra seems to be willfully exploiting their fans.

UPDATE: So this is what they posted in response to a fan asking them about this on twitter

I’m sorry, but this kind of snark in response to a legitimate question is horribly disrespectful towards your fans.

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He’s quite the songbird!!!

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I HEARD LUCIO HAD A BROADWAY VOICE???? AND I ALMOST CRIED

AND I ALSO HEARD HE’LL BURST INTO SONG AT THE ONE HE LOVES????

A TROPHY IS USUALLY SOMETHING YOU’RE P ROU D OF

@thearcanagame aaaAAAAAA

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Lucio and Julian sketch commission for @danarune​!

I had a lot of fun!!! (๑´♡`๑)

If you guys haven’t played The Arcana yet, please do! It’s so good ahhhhhHH  (o´艸｀o)

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yoooo my incredible coworker @vivifx made an amazing trailer for our game *____* 

the game itself, btw, has been added as a reward for ALL TIERS of the kickstarter! 

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Ia, Will of Death and Rebirth

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Due to supplier shortage, all my notebooks are all blank paged now!

My shop is open, find me at spica.tictail.com! I’ve also added a new product to the store for preorder

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A better shot of the image of the Kamarx notebook cover! It’ll be printed on A6 sized notebooks. Preorder one at spica.tictail.com

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My shop is open, find me at spica.tictail.com! I’ve also added a new product to the store for preorder

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Some Twitter doots.

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It's been a while.

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Some thesis work

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I've reopened my shop, but I've swapped to Tictail due to Storenvy charging customers handling fees! Find me at https://spica.tictail.com!!!

My store is finally open!  Preorders are open until the 30th of August and orders should be ready to ship by mid September.

Thank you everyone for waiting so patiently!

https://spica09.storenvy.com

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If you think about it, I almost always draw Shiki crying and covered in blood.

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I drew myself as an FE character a while back! I really love the tactician class >v<

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Approximately when will the FE fanzine be up for preorder? :D Your preview looks great (I think I have a good hunch as to which characters you depicted, haha!) ^__^

I’m not quite sure of the approximate date, but definitely keep an eye out in the next few months! :3c  When I have a solid date from the organizers, I’ll definitely post it on my blog!

oh my was it really that obvious?

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Here’s a preview of the zine piece I’ve been working on for the Fire Emblem Fates fanzine, @ataleoffates

It’s my first time contributing to a zine, but I had a lot of fun!

Can you guess who they are? :3c

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Do you take commissions? :O

I was thinking of opening some sketch commissions? Unfortunately with my current schedule, that would be the most I’d be able to do tho! It would look something like the Kirin AU drawings, with maybe a bit of spot color! ovo