Chapter 8 Release Date Announcement

So yesterday, when I was posting the steam announcement, I was half-tempted to make a joke that I was going to hold the release of Chapter 8 until I hit a certain milestone in steam wishlists. I decided against it, because I'm forever worried that people read my humour wrong, and might genuinely think I was holding the release hostage for the sake of greed.

Turns out, it wouldn't have mattered! I already passed that milestone in just over 24 hours. You guys continue to astound me. Thank you.

I'm not saying what that milestone I was thinking was, but I will say it's still FAR from what I'm really hoping for in order to get a great steam release. So, if you haven't already, please drop me a wishlist here.

Couple of changes to the rollout schedule:

• Normie tier no longer receives the update 2 days before "public release date". Reason being is that I no longer release the game for free anymore. So from now on, the Normie Tier release date is now the official release date.

• As a result of the above, Manifested tier now receive the update 2 days before official release, whereas previously it was 4. Trainee tier 4 instead of 6.

• The higher tiers, however... have not had those decreased, in fact, they have been increased. Gods will receive the game 14 days before official release, Legends 12 days and Heroes 10 days. I'm experimenting here. Every release, we have the same issue. Someone signs up to a lower tier, leaks the game and immediately cancels. It renders the early access benefits of those paying to support me on a higher level, pointless. This is my way of trying putting some distance between those who pay more to support Origin Story's development and those who'll take the cheap option to leak the game and, frankly, do the exact opposite of support it.

So there it is. Hold on to your butts for a couple of weeks. I hope you all enjoy it.

SLIGHT AMENDMENT TO THIS: The OppaiMan Store was originally built with the promise of helping smaller developers promote their games, with no caveats. At some point after my first release there, this then changed to "we will only promote you as long as you promote us". This was something I disagreed with, but was fine to not be promoted as long as I could host my game there still.

However, this has changed even further. Now, after finding out that mine, and many other developers' games, have essentially been delisted because we have not promoted them, I will no longer be releasing any further updates of Origin Story on the OppaiMan Store. So, there is no longer an OppaiMan release date.