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[SMG Studio]

We hear you!

Although we are very happy about the positive feedback we get for the game itself, we have noticed that some of you are not satisfied with the restrictions for free users. Complaints about "Pay to Play" are coming up.

Let us explain:

We do not have any purchases that can be "consumed", you cannot pay to recharge your tokens and then spend them again. This would be the easiest way to cash in, but we don`t want that. We are not a gaming Behemoth fishing for whales in the F2P world, we are a small Indie studio in Sydney trying to bring our RISK game to Steam. On popular request. With an option for all current mobile players to keep their account and purchases, and for the new players to have them on PC as well as all their phones and tablets (yes, multiple).

The only thing we offer regarding the tokens is the Premium DLC, which grants not only unlimited games (for many sporadic players just a nice side effect) but also 6 additional maps and 8 avatars. Steam users cant watch ads, the only other token:revenue stream we have on mobile.

The total you can spend on the game if you buy everything, is still less than "heavy users" (not whales!) spend on average in an F2P per month. The cap for what we can earn is quite low, and still we need to pay our development team, office and of course for the RISK license. It`s a delicate balance to keep the wheels spinning and developing the game further.

However, we understand that Steam is a different world, and so we have decided to implement those new rules as long as you play on PC / Steam:

• Scenarios don`t cost tokens anymore. Go crazy, play our Mini-Campaigns as often as you want.
  
• Custom Single player, local coop and friends play is down to 5 tokens per game
  
• Global Domination is down to 10 tokens per game
  
• Total tokens per day is now 25 (after you exhaust the initial 200, which will recharge while you play, too)

What does that mean?

Now you can play - after you spent all the initial allocation - unlimited scenarios and a minimum of 5 single player games or 2-3 multiplayer games per day. Likely more, because we expect you to win some tokens back by finishing a few of your games as winner.

However, if you like the game, support us and go Premium and / or look at the map packs we have to offer. Toss a coin to your developer...

[Lord Grinch]

<3

[Lord Grinch]

Also SMG, if you could implement a chat system for Steam ONLY, I get it's cross-platform, but maybe make it optional for the players to decide? If the player wants Chat on he/she can switch it on if they so choose, it's the little things yall at SMG Studio implement into Risk that make a difference.

Thanks for listening to the reviews, I am going Negative to Positive now!

- Grinch

[SMG Studio]

Originally posted by Lord Grinch:

Also SMG, if you could implement a chat system for Steam ONLY, I get it's cross-platform, but maybe make it optional for the players to decide? If the player wants Chat on he/she can switch it on if they so choose, it's the little things yall at SMG Studio implement into Risk that make a difference.

Thanks for listening to the reviews, I am going Negative to Positive now!

- Grinch

Thank you very much.
As for the chat, the main issue are the legal requirements. As we have licensed the RISK brand, we have certain obligations, one of them is complying to various restrictions from authorities and law agencies around the world for kid-safe and family-friendly apps. Many of them simply outright ban any possibility of an underage kid chatting unsupervised with a random person on the internet. We are trying to push those boundaries with pre.made messages and will expand those, but a "typing chat" looks very unlikely.

- Johann @ SMG

[Reaces]

As a person who has spent several hundred (low-ball figure unfortunately) on F2P games before, I really admire / appreciate your single-purchase, low cost DLC package.
You made a great choice there, and I scoff at the reviews claiming you are trying to cash-grab, when in truth the full game is only a 12EUR purchase without game-affecting micro-transactions.

[Corl]

This is a great company for taking user feedback and using it to benefit the game for all, thank you so much for this great choice

[Lord Grinch]

amazing choice from SMG!

[CARL XXL]

great Game and very good choice
Keep up the good work

[ItzGray]

What about a custom map creator for premium? would be interesting...

[DelPiyero*]

Good game

[Commander Keen]

I just finished downloading game and then read this! Thanks you developers. Don't see this very often.

[SMG Studio]

Originally posted by ItzGray:

What about a custom map creator for premium? would be interesting...

We'd love to do this but our licence is restrictive and it's a worry if someone makes a copyrighted map we could get in trouble.

We even wanted to do a map design comp but same issue with IP.

But we take suggestions! hehe that's something right :)

[Lord Grinch]

free chat talk!! we are suppressed!! :D

[Explancerr]

yess jsdksd

[boskic]

I have problem i can't instal it can someone help me

[SatansBratan]

I will never download anything from SMG again. the developer is the most uncooperative studio i have ever seen. I can recommend it to everyone NOT to download "RISK". I don't even get an answer. If I had to pay something, I would have given everything to my lawyer. my brother paid for DLC's. SMG studio you can be ashamed of such closures.