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Hey all, just wanted to give you all an update on what's going on behind the scenes with a few things

Subscription Price Changes
We have this work pretty much done but Haystack is leaving today for a massively deserved 4-day vacation. We felt it was better not to rush this out the door. Prices will increase to 9.50 next week.

The price change only impacts new subscriptions. This does mean if your old sub stops working for any reason you are sorry out of luck and will have to switch to the new price. However, any account that paid for 6 months of subscription at the old price will get 5 BC tokens as a thank-you for switching the first time they sign up for the new subscription.

Also of note once the change happens you will only be able to buy subscriptions for your own account and no one elses. The risk of problems happening with a subscription model for someone else is too high. Instead, we will be offering an option to buy premium upgrades for 1 or 3 months without a subscription. The price for this will be 10.50 a month or 31.50 for 3 months.

BC Subscription
We will also be adding a secondary type of subscription you can purchase for 8.50 a month. Breed Characteristic subscriptions will grant you access to all the BCs in the game and all future BCs as long as your sub is active. We plan to be putting out 6 or more BCs per year so this works out as a significant discount. Plus it is a great way to try out BCs without committing to the 25USD price tag for one.

You will still be able to purchase BCs outright for IVs or USD.

December Event
This has been a really hard year for our family in part because we have been working our butts off, and also dealing with a number of health and house challenges. Frankly, we don't have a ton of bandwidth for a big shiny event this December. I hope you can afford us some grace next month. We will do our best.

I can share with you the following plans:
-We will have herd helpers as normal though there will not be many new ones
-We plan to put out 2.5 new BCs (you will see ;)) )
-We are going to be working on a new tack pack, which may be a bit on the small size
-There will be a hide-and-seek game
-We will also have a member art contest for tack backgrounds.


Breeding Lab
I am still working on the breeding lab but unlike Haystack who can put his head down and just focus on a project I also have to keep the rest of the game running and keep our family turning over. I have constant interruptions on this one that are making it nearly impossible for me to get any focused work done on this project. This note is basically a lower your expectations on the timeline for this one. At this point, I have no clue when this will be out but just know I am working on this one the best I can.

That's all for now. Thanks so much, everyone for being amazing members. Looking forward to closing out 2023 strong.