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The standard stuff

• Visions of Darkness is a hobby project run by one person. It comes as-is, with no warranty. It may go down, lose progress, or have a bug that eats your best sword. I’ll fix what I can, but I can’t promise any of that won’t happen.
• Your account stores your email address and a hashed password. The email is used to verify your account and reset your password. I don’t sell it, and I won’t send you a newsletter.
• The game records how fights go, such as who won, how long it took, and which potions got used, so I can balance it.
• I can change, rebalance, reset, or remove anything in the game at any time, and that includes your character and gear. Accounts that cheat, deliberately exploit bugs, or harass other players can be removed.
• You need to be at least 13 to make an account.

How this game is run

I make this game because I enjoy making it. It isn’t a startup and I’m not trying to make 8 billion dollars. There are no investors and no shareholders I answer to, and there’s no quarterly earnings call where someone asks why daily active users are down.

That also means the game isn’t designed by community vote. I’m building the game I want to play. I’ll read feedback, and some of it will change things, balance especially. But a feature request is a suggestion, and “the community demands it” won’t move me much. If you want a game built entirely around what its players ask for, that’s a reasonable thing to want, and this isn’t that game.

About money: there’s no fee yet. When there is one, it’ll be a one-time price for the base game, and it covers roughly a year of server costs for your account. If you’re still playing after that, I’m glad, and your account is now running on my money. So think of yourself less as a customer and more as a guest at my house. I’m happy to have you, and I’ll hear you out, but I decide where the furniture goes.

Some new content will be free. Some might come later as paid DLC. Whether it does depends on things like server costs going up, me losing my job and needing to cover the mortgage, the tractor breaking down, or my dog trying to make friends with a porcupine again. He lost that one. Either way, there won’t be loot boxes.