We have had multiple variations of this question.

QUESTION: Will you reduce the price of food soon? The market has tanked and I'm not able to continue supporting feeding my meeroos at the cost of food.

ANSWER: This gets me every time, guys! So I'm going to bullet point this.

Our food is comparable to all of other similar games, and in some cases cheaper.

**We sell no tiered food products that provide stat bonuses.

**We sell no medicine as your Meeroos never get sick

**We sell no fertility potions

**We sell no happiness totems

**We sell no vitamins or anything else.

**We sell very few starter packs because, as we expected and is intended, people are buying Meeroos from other players, not from us.

**We don't run or benefit from any secondary market sales.

**We don't put out special editions every week. We've released our dryads one time as a character from the story and heavily debated whether to do that or not.

We sell food and stumps. That's the bulk of our salable product.

I'm increasingly amazing at the amount of players who ask us to reduce the cost of food, which is 63 Lindens a week for 1 meeroo. That is 26 US cents.

There are those who get upset with us because they're not making enough money. But we're not in the stockmarket. A meeroo to us is never more than the value it costs to make one. We are not responsible for the secondary market activity or a value assigned to a specific meeroo.

There are those who think they are entitled to make money from Meeroos but have expressed the belief that the company manufacturing them is not.. i.e. "The food is too much they should give it away fee" or my favorite "They're so greedy putting out the dryads, I guess they needed more lining in their pockets while I can't sell my sierras."

The reality is we are not greedy. After much debate we agreed to release the dryads because we thought people might like to own a part of the story they were reading. That's why they were so inexpensive. We believed from the beginning that we wanted Meeroos to be affordable and refused to nickel and dime our customers with tons of dependency products that provided bigger advantages to deeper pockets. We have maintained true to that ethic and will continue to do so.

But the food pays for our servers, our staff, our legal retention, our contracted creators, our development region, our advertising agency trying to help us take meeroos to the real world. It won't be coming down in the foreseeable future. It can't.

I hope that answers that question and adequately explains our stance.