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Indie since 1896! \ud83d\ude1b<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Happy Birthday to me! Well it actually was earlier this month, the day before the previous blog post. But here I’m celebrating my 15th birthday as indie! I already wrote about my journey in my previous post of five years ago, so if you want to know more about it read here: https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/my-first-40-years-10-as-indie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Now, five years have passed since that post, and things changed, changed a lot. In practice, everything has become insanely harder. I had to start a Patreon<\/a>, because things are so tough recently that I felt I needed some help to finish the next games. Once again your response was really overwhelming for me, and I want to thank you all for your support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why things got harder? there are many factors but in the last weeks I thought about it a lot, and basically it’s due to a single main factor: “the gatekeepers”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2004 when I started, you could sell directly from your site. I even knew people making six figures a year directly. And consider that amount using vendors which takes around 8-10%, not modern portals which take 30-35%…! But wasn’t only in 2004, I was still selling fine direct even when I wrote my previous blog post back in 2014, so 5 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years instead, we had two different big changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n