April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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Shitsandgiggles
MemberSuch a beauty...Bearuty, bearty... No that doesn't really work
marx
MemberCrowchild's games may be mediocre by todays standards but you can't deny some of his girls are still absolutely gorgeous, it's just a shame there isn't more art like this of them.
Bella is definitely one of said girls and this is just about the only picture of her I've seen so far that's done her justice.
tiamat5
BlockedBella my blizzard beauty
WL44
MemberIt sucks that crow child is such a sellout. He made like all the good scenes Gold only. Sellouts man >.<
realandyisepic
MemberThere was a good reason why. High Tail Hall's previous model of "Free-To-Play Game with Exclusive Content" was switched to "Paid Game with Free Demo" in January 2017 because it was affecting HTH Studio's ability to financially keep afloat. Too many players were thinking "Why should I pay for a gold subscription when the scene will eventually go free in x months?"
People just refuse to see that HTH Studios is a BUSINESS. They are not like who they were in the past, where Crowchild already had a job and was working on High Tail Hall as a side project for fun. In fact, they wouldn't be where they are right now if Crowchild kept High Tail Hall as a side project instead of committing to it full-time (Around SEVENTY HOURS a week).
HTH Studios has to charge players for what they are producing in order to pay for voice acting, better equipment, and to give the staff paychecks. HTH Studios also has to charge players to pay for the website domain and the people who maintain it.
It's absolutely cringe-worthy to see people freak out over a FIVE-DOLLAR monthly subscription and complain that HTH Studios is "sitting on piles of cash". That is simply not true.
Please stop trying to prevent a business from growing.
Benze
MemberYour entire essay would be valid if crow actually worked on the damn game, instead of fucking around and putting out a 0.1 alpha version several months after announcing that he was starting then.
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