HTHStudios

The Future of Free Content

Added 2017-01-28 02:00:25 +0000 UTC

A personal and direct message from HTH Studios LLC:

We as a company have given up our lives to provide content for this game, to move this project forward and keep it running. As of now the studio employs a total of three people: One that advertises and networks, one that promotes and does our PR, and one that by himself writes thousands of lines of code, draws and animates this game into existence with his bare hands. As of right now we don't have any free time as our employees work an average of 72 to 78 hours a week.

We pay thousands of dollars to our technicians and to people who run our servers, to fix code that's messed up and broken, and make repairs on our system, on top of advertising, to run this project and keep it going. Over the years we've had some of the most ridiculous things said to us, demands made, and how dare we charge money to keep this project alive. We've been near the verge of bankruptcy several times since starting this business, and we struggng to the extremes to keep our heads above water.

We can no longer tolerate the demands that people are making. We can't continue to give away content and expect to keep this alive. But still we persist. We will not give up quietly, and will continue to release updates.

To keep the content flowing to you, we've reached a limit on our servers as to how many free members we can actually maintain. We have over 200,000 Free Members with only 4% who are Gold members. As it stands we can no longer maintain this load. We cannot constantly produce free content, host it and pay for it out of our pockets. So as a company we have come together and say that yes we will still offer free content, but we are sad to say that we have to reduce the amount of free content we provide and we are eliminating the Free Member updates. We have to reduce Free content in order to keep this game alive and available on-line.

We would like to stress, we are not eliminating Free content entirely, we are simply reducing the amount of Free content available and will not be adding to Free content aside from sporadic updates. These changes are going into effect immediately. Doing so will allow us to focus more time on Gold Updates providing more and better product for those who pay for Gold content. This will give Gold Members up to 4 scenes a month (including continuing to revise and update scenes), an increase from from the previous 1-3 scenes per month.

If you are upset about us having to reduce Free content, please stand by our game and support us by purchasing a subscription for $5.00 so we can continue to expand this project. Subscriptions cost less than a meal at McDonalds. We beseech you, if you do not like us pulling back free content, by all means go gold, because that content will be instantly available to you. If not, then we won't hold you back from walking away from our studio. As much as we love our fans and what we do, if you have to walk away from us because we want to keep this alive, then do so. We will remain and continue to produce content for Gold members.

Again these changes will go into effect immediately.

With the utmost respect and sincerity,

HTH Studios LLC