Just looking at the first 5 pages or so, it looks like well over 60% of that list are people over lvl 10. So how big was that list before Ep 2 came out? (I played through Ep 1 and went away, so I was a guilty first time donator, too).

Raepdog Posted:

Trout so far you have made the right choices. You unlike any other free browser game tsar do something different, you talk to us, you know us, you are one of us.

The KoL guys are cut from the same cloth, and TH’s creator seemed pretty cool too, though I haven’t been around either game for a while now. A fun game with high replay/frequent new content, and creator(s) who take the time to listen to the playerbase takes too much time & resources to be really “free”. Being text-based only means it’s cheaper. The KoL guys got lucky across the board, and have been able to keep donations high enough to never have to charge, but donation items do have a pretty big impact on competitive play.

If trout can keep the content flowing, getting $10 from nearly everyone 2x a year or whatever, instead of getting $10 from a small part of the population every month, sweet!