Dear Gate Community, Since 2011 Spicy Horse has released 5 online/mobile F2P games, with varying levels of success. Two years after its launch The Gate has been, by far, the most successful of these games. This success has been born out of your support and dedication to the game. For this, we thank you.
Unfortunately, since December of 2014, The Gate has been losing money for Spicy Horse. We spend more on development and support for the title than it generates in revenue. Through this period we've maintained our commitment to support and improve the title, but this strategy can no longer be sustained.
In order to survive, Spicy Horse must focus its very limited development resources on new games.
Our strategy, like the strategy of other independent mobile game developers, is to release new games as quickly as possible, support them for as long as they are successful, and work towards landing a long-running, self-sustaining hit title. We've yet to launch that hit, but we still have a chance while our players and investors continue to support us.
As we re-focus our development strategy on new titles, The Gate servers will continue to run indefinitely, with the following updates to how we develop and support the game: • There will be no new features, UI updates, or other gameplay tweaks made to the game. • There will be continued Customer Support, bug fixes and minor adjustments to database-related items like balancing and item sales. • Weekly Tournaments will come to and end. From mid-August there are about 3 months of Weekly Tournaments remaining. Mid-November 2015 will bring the end of Weekly Tournaments. • Servers will be maintained for as long as the company continues to exist or there are a minimum of some dozens of players still engaged with the game. See our other games (BigHead BASH, Crazy Fairies, Akaneiro) for examples of this. • Yes, we said there would be Guilds PVP, but we're unable to accomplish this goal. Our apologies for this. • Again, to be clear, everything in the game will remain except for Weekly Tournaments and the monthly PvP shop card, which end Mid-November.
We are releasing this information to you as early as we're able.
A special note regarding the Steam version of The Gate: Weekly tournaments will continue in the Steam version until the content has been consumed, which from this point should take over one year. The Steam version will also eventually get Guilds. Our goal is to add Guilds before end of year (2015).
I understand that this news will come as an upsetting shock to many of you. Everyone here at Spicy Horse sympathizes with your feelings and hopes to make this transition as painless as possible. Please accept my sincere gratitude for the support and trust you've given Spicy Horse and The Gate.
To express our gratitude, we've created this redeem code, good from here to eternity:
THANX-4-PLAYING
This contains: 1000 Gold 50,000 Soul Coins 1200 Crystals 3x Hope 3x Rood 5x Seismic Material 5x Cyclone material 5x Blaze material 1x Eye of Cthulu 5x Heliotrope Hat Shards 5x Purplepuss Shards
On behalf of the entire team at Spicy Horse Games, American McGee CEO
Spicy Horse Games
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