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Hard Times release and free to play

Hard Times · published 7 Jan 2020, 09:21 UTC

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Hi everybody!!! Ivan's here!

HARD TIMES GOES FREE TO PLAY


The great news here is that starting from 1st february 2020 Hard Times is going to be released as a Free to Play game. Open and free for everyone to play.

I'm gonna close the Early Access phase, in which copies were sold and every single cent of any revenue coming from it have been donated to L'Alternativa Onlus to support their projects with homeless people in our town. We managed to raise quite a nice amount and supported this year's program distributing blankets and general assistance and legal support to homeless people with the help of you buying the game.

As i said many times before i chose not to get a single cent from the game revenues, and if you bought the game 100% of your money (except taxes and steam revenues) are going to charity.

So you still have time until the end of january to buy Hard Times and support homeless help programs with a little money. Otherwise you can wait for february and have the chance to play the game for free, as it will become free to play for everyone.

In this way I hope to be able to expand the community of players and, perhaps, find new stimuli to develop new tools for modding and new support and content for the game.
In the meantime, there are also new projects in the pipeline and new adventures are at the start, so there is no shortage of things to do. Precise plans for the future, however, there are none, we navigate - as always - on sight, we go where the wind takes us and, tomorrow, blessed is he who still has an eye!
Happy New Year to everyone!
🖤🤟🖖

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