Hi all, Adam here. I am one of the game designers on Rival Books of Aster. I want to announce our official Early Access Release date is going to be Tuesday June 20th, 2017. There will be no more delays! We want to thank everyone who has been patiently awaiting our early access release. We are want to apologize for changing the release date on you (TWICE!), but we assure you that the delays in the last week were because we wanted to make sure that we deliver the best day 1 experience we can. PRICING To start we've heard you loud and clear on the forums, this is not a game that the community considers f2p so we are going to change that designation on the game’s Steam Store page. Let me explain how our pricing will break down on release day. We will be instituting early access pricing for Rival Books of Aster. Your first starter pack will be free and each of the 3 additional starter packs will cost $4.99. There are 4 expansion packs, 1 for each house and these will be priced at $2.99. We chose this model for a few reasons. As we have mentioned before on the message boards, we hate opening random packs, so we wanted to come up with a pricing structure that let players be competitive with a small investment. We also want to make it possible to collect all of the cards in our release day set for what we think is a reasonable price. After you play a deck from each house in the tutorial you will get to choose your first starter deck for free. If you want to be fully competitive with one house it will cost you $2.99 and you will have all of the cards for that house. You will be missing some common cards, but the major archetypes for the house you have chosen will be covered. To purchase the entire game you will need to buy 3 more starter decks and 4 expansions packs- the total cost will be $26.93. We decided that we wanted you to be able to buy as much or as little as you like, and we think this is the best way to achieve that. Your free starter deck will be yours for as long as you own the game, so choose wisely! LAUNCH DISCOUNT I am also very happy to announce that during launch week we will be discounting the prices of all DLC’s by 40%. At this price the whole launch day set will cost $16. We want to give early adopters a chance to get into the early access for cheap. We are looking forward to hearing all of your constructive criticism and making the best CCG game we can, with your help of course! Be well, and I will see you on the plains of Aster next Tuesday! Adam

Hi all, Adam here. I am one of the game designers on Rival Books of Aster. I want to announce our official Early Access Release date is going to be Tuesday June 20th, 2017. There will be no more delays! We want to thank everyone who has been patiently awaiting our early access release. We are want to apologize for changing the release date on you (TWICE!), but we assure you that the delays in the last week were because we wanted to make sure that we deliver the best day 1 experience we can. PRICING To start we've heard you loud and clear on the forums, this is not a game that the community considers f2p so we are going to change that designation on the games Steam Store page. Let me explain how our pricing will break down on release day. We will be instituting early access pricing for Rival Books of Aster. Your first starter pack will be free and each of the 3 additional starter packs will cost $4.99. There are 4 expansion packs, 1 for each house and these will be priced at $2.99. We chose this model for a few reasons. As we have mentioned before on the message boards, we hate opening random packs, so we wanted to come up with a pricing structure that let players be competitive with a small investment. We also want to make it possible to collect all of the cards in our release day set for what we think is a reasonable price. After you play a deck from each house in the tutorial you will get to choose your first starter deck for free. If you want to be fully competitive with one house it will cost you $2.99 and you will have all of the cards for that house. You will be missing some common cards, but the major archetypes for the house you have chosen will be covered. To purchase the entire game you will need to buy 3 more starter decks and 4 expansions packs- the total cost will be $26.93. We decided that we wanted you to be able to buy as much or as little as you like, and we think this is the best way to achieve that. Your free starter deck will be yours for as long as you own the game, so choose wisely! LAUNCH DISCOUNT I am also very happy to announce that during launch week we will be discounting the prices of all DLCs by 40%. At this price the whole launch day set will cost $16. We want to give early adopters a chance to get into the early access for cheap. We are looking forward to hearing all of your constructive criticism and making the best CCG game we can, with your help of course! Be well, and I will see you on the plains of Aster next Tuesday! Adam