It's been almost one year since we added keg party rooms to the game and they are one of our most popular features. A party room costs one credit to install and it allows you to throw keggers for your fellow brewers. Since party rooms had a one year expiration date you basically just got to 'rent' the room for a year. Until now. As expirations are starting to loom for our earliest party rooms installations I decided that I just couldn't bring myself to enforce the expirations. From this point forward keg party rooms no longer expire. Keg parties can move a lot of beer out the door for you and now installing a party room is a better value than ever!

And of course I am not going to stop there. Ad Depts provide a way to show off your label to players even when you are offline and although they typically don't cause a huge jump in sales they do generate a steady flow of players to your brewery and label pages. And as long as you have beer in stock then other players can buy your beer directly off the ads. Ad Depts also originally came with an expiration date... but no more. Invest a label credit in an Ad Dept and it will remain part of your brewery for as long as you play the game. Unlike most brewery upgrades Keg party rooms and Ad depts move with you as you advance to new brewery levels.

I am working on the promised changes and upgrades to the farming system. When installed the new system will be almost the same as before except players will also have access to a more advanced farm that can reduce your clicking... this system won't generate farm products any faster but you will have to click fewer times to get the same amount of beer money and to harvest the goods. The new system will include an option to invest label credits to expand the farm which will indeed have an effect on your beer money and harvesting rates. And just like the now better Ad dept and party room, the enlarged farms will not expire and they will move with you to each new brewery level.

Lastly, and you should thank bunkerbrew for his recent suggestion and request for this update... I am going to provide some real money relief to TBG's most dedicated players. Label expirations are not going to go away and with more and more players coming up on their one year anniversary some of our best people are facing the financial decision on whether and how many labels to renew. I want to keep you playing and keep as many of your labels active as possible while at the same time continuing to offset the game's expenses.

A new 'Pro Brewer Pack' has been added to the online store. For $99 you get 24 label credits. That's a full case of beer and it is more than 50% off the regular label credit price! And for a limited time each 'Pro Brewer Pack' sold will include a free TBG t-shirt. At $9/credit and $20 for the shirt plus shipping and handling you are looking at a 60% savings off the full price for the whole package. Even if you use the 3/2 starter pack prices it is still 43% cheaper than the full (discounted) price.

Thanks to all of you for helping to keep TBG 'on the air' and for supporting the game, I am a tiny game developer and I need your support to keep the game online and to continue to make it better. Stay tuned to this news page for more updates coming your way soon.

Robc.