RISK: Global Domination News

EDIT: Sale will go live 10am April 9th PST. Sorry the "news" is set to Aussie time :/

We've discounted the Pirate Pack for a week and showing off the 4th map we'll be back-filling into the pack. If you already own the pack this will be added when we do the update.

Note: We'll be back-filling all packs with less than 4 maps (Pirate, US Cities, Zombie) over the next few months. It's a thank you to those who supported us and also trying to ensure value with the packs.

[h2]BONUS: We want your help deciding which map pack should be on sale next! [/h2]
The map pack with the most wishlist's will be discounted next. So head to the DLC store page and wishlist all the packs you want to see on sale next. Could be 1 or more.

We just hit 10,000 members on the community Discord server.

To put that in perspective that's more people than the population of Tuvalu! Yes Tuvalu!!!

Besides chatting with other players, joining tournaments, reporting cheaters, fan art and everything in-between, we've also become the #1 RISK Meme supplier to the world!

Here's a small sample of the servers contribution to the world of RISK Memes.









It's free to join so come be part of the community.

We hear you!

Although we are very happy about the positive feedback we get for the game itself, we have noticed that some of you are not satisfied with the restrictions for free users. Complaints about "Pay to Play" are coming up.

Let us explain:

We do not have any purchases that can be "consumed", you cannot pay to recharge your tokens and then spend them again. This would be the easiest way to cash in, but we don`t want that. We are not a gaming Behemoth fishing for whales in the F2P world, we are a small Indie studio in Sydney trying to bring our RISK game to Steam. On popular request. With an option for all current mobile players to keep their account and purchases, and for the new players to have them on PC as well as all their phones and tablets (yes, multiple).

The only thing we offer regarding the tokens is the Premium DLC, which grants not only unlimited games (for many sporadic players just a nice side effect) but also 6 additional maps and 8 avatars. Steam users cant watch ads, the only other token:revenue stream we have on mobile.

The total you can spend on the game if you buy everything, is still less than what "heavy users" (not whales!) spend on average in an F2P per month. The cap for what we can earn is quite low, and still we need to pay our development team, office and of course for the RISK license. It`s a delicate balance to keep the wheels spinning and developing the game further.

However, we understand that Steam is a different world, and so we have decided to implement those new rules as long as you play on PC / Steam:

• Scenarios don`t cost tokens anymore. Go crazy, play our Mini-Campaigns as often as you want.
  
• Custom Single player, local coop and friends play is down to 5 tokens per game
  
• Global Domination is down to 10 tokens per game
  
• Total tokens per day is now 25 (after you exhaust the initial 200, which will recharge while you play, too)
  

What does that mean?

Now you can play - after you spent all the initial allocation - unlimited scenarios and a minimum of 5 single player games or 2-3 multiplayer games per day. Likely more, because we expect you to win some tokens back by finishing a few of your games as winner.

However, if you like the game, support us and go Premium and / or look at the map packs we have to offer. Toss a coin to your developer...

We told you we'd announce the date when we were ready to launch and that date is Feb 19 2PM PST. That's just couple of days away!

Enjoy a new trailer we put together and don't forget to Wishlist to be notified as soon as we hit the "LAUNCH" button. Or join the community Discord to discuss with other RISK fans.

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All purchases from mobile will be carried across via your RISK account and visa versa. You can play against anyone on any device.

We're excited to expand our RISK game to Steam as it's been a long time coming.

Thanks for supporting us and get ready for more updates, new maps, new features and modes in 2020+

Team RISK @ SMG

Did you know the Seaport map in the Pirate Map Pack is actually just Sydney harbor?

Here's the Google map. (link if you want to explore our home town)



The initial sketch by Alex on our team.



And the final map design. We added more ships to make the map more interesting but stuck pretty close to Alex's initial idea.



P.S: We'll have the Steam release date VERY soon.

cheers
Team RISK @ SMG Studio