Over the past year, finding the right balance between price and rewards has been difficult. The original monthly supporter price of $10 (cancel anytime) led to a pattern of short term sign ups followed by immediate cancellations, which created losses for the site. The Supporter Club was meant to help fund development of the GDS Editor and asset packs, but the reward structure ended up working against that goal.
In order to combat this and still offer many of the free rewards, I shifted to minimum yearly sign-up. While this halted pump and dumps the large price barrier made the GDS editor tool and plus club inaccessible to most small developers.
This is not my vision for GDS editor, I want gds editor to be a helpful tool for all indie devs making games, not something out of reach. But the current structure pricing now makes it prohibitive.
In order to solve this I will be making some long overdue changes to rewards in order to reduce the barrier to entry for the supporter club and subsquently to the gds editor tool.
Thank you for your patience. The Supporter Club will reopen soon with a simpler, fairer, and more affordable structure