So our pre-closer called off today (and tomorrow but that's tomorrow's problem), which means it was just the closer and me for a couple hours, which sucks but also means we get paid for our lunches, which is something management hopes we don't know and I make a point to have them verbally confirm every time. It was a drag but honestly we got super lucky with it being slow enough that one person could solo while another did tasks, and we got out a reasonable time. But my closer's basically a kid still, so she has to wait for her family to come pick her up, and I'm not the kind of guy that's gonna leave a kid standing around in a crummy parking lot so I wait too, and boy did we get to watch one hell of a show.
Hatoful Boyfriend creator Hato Moa just revealed that, ever since Epic bought out Mediatonic and acquired the distribution/royalty rights to their version of Hatoful Boyfriend, the smartphone and PS versions were pulled down as part of the rights transfer, and then... nothing, and they haven't received a royalty or a single bit of communication from Epic in almost two years, and can't get in contact with their accountant.
hi there! like we mentioned last week, colin and aidan are working on a feature we’re all really excited about right now; we were hoping it would ship in time for this patch notes but there’s still some stuff to finish up, so we’re going to provide you some more details on it at the end of the post instead of leaving you in the dark.
alongside spending most of our week on that, we’ve shipped a couple small changes:
- fixed a bug where users could very rarely get stuck in a half-signed up state, unable to use the site
- this happened at most about once every 10,000 registrations
- after we got two reports of it in a short span of time, we fixed what we think is the underlying issue so it shouldn’t happen any more, fixed the small number of users whose account was in this broken state, and built new tooling for @kaara to help fix people’s accounts with minimal effort if it ever recurs.
- removed a bunch of old unused notification code, in preparation for doing some more work to improve notifications.
on the business front, we’ve finalized our most recent round of funding! we’ll have a full financial update out next week for the start of October and we’ll go into more detail about everything then.
