News Article - Patreon Preview (#79)

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+date = "2019-02-11T03:48:00+05:30"
+title = "yuzu Patreon Preview Release"
+author = "CaptV0rt3x"
+forum = 84438
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+
+A very good day to all you yuzu fans out there!
+Today we are here to share with you some very exciting news for our biggest supporters!
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+## Foreword
+
+As a start, let's talk about how emulator development works from a bird's-eye view.
+We all know that developing emulators requires significant reverse-engineering and programming knowledge, as well as lots of coding, testing, and bug fixing.
+That's the **technical** stuff.
+But before we can even get there, we need people who have the required skills and are willing to invest their time and effort into the project.
+These people, our Developers, work tirelessly to keep Switch emulation progressing.
+They work mostly in their free time and are very passionate about the project.
+
+{{< imgs
+    "./smo-2.png|Super Mario Odyssey"
+>}}
+
+`Wait a second, you guys probably already know all this stuff.`
+What you might not know is that, most of the time these developers work for free.
+They don't get paid for their efforts nor do they ask to be paid.
+In addition to our development costs (Switch consoles and games, web services, etc.), some of our developers are in situations that would really benefit from even a small amount of income from this project.
+
+As you probably know, we created a [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam) to address this need.
+We have asked the community to help us by subscribing and they heard.
+We now have over 200 patrons who collectively contribute to our project!
+We would like to sincerely thank them for their love, support, and contributions!
+
+When we decided to create a Patreon, we promised our patrons that they would get access to exclusive content as a thank you.
+Until now, we have only partially fulfilled our promise - by means of exclusive Discord support.
+It's about time we fulfilled on our promise.
+
+## Big News
+
+**As a token of our thanks, we are announcing today that we will be releasing a special Preview of yuzu to our patrons!**
+
+We've made lots of incredible progress that we'd like to share first with the folks who have been our biggest supporters and fans.
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+> Starting today, patrons with donations of 5$/month and above (Patreon Roles: Supporter, Member, VIP) will get early access to new features via a **yuzu Patreon Preview**, before this content becomes available in our Nightly and Canary releases.
+
+Features found in this preview are not exclusive and will definitely be available for regular users within a few days.
+In accordance with our [open source license](https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/blob/master/license.txt), the source code for these previews will be made available to our patrons.
+
+This is just a preview release and is not similar to our Nightly or Canary builds - which get updated daily.
+We may do similar releases like this in the future as we have more exciting new features to share, but not with any set regularity.
+Support for this preview version will be given exclusively via the Patreon channels on our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/u77vRWY).
+
+{{< single-title-imgs
+    "The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild"
+		"./botw.png"
+		"./botw-1.png"
+>}}
+
+{{< single-title-imgs
+    "Super Mario Odyssey"
+		"./smo.png"
+		"./smo-1.png"
+>}}
+
+**If you'd like to try out this preview release, please head on over to our [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam) to get access!
+Thank you again for your support!**