Pricing
Every competitive part of Iron Curtain is free and always will be: matchmaking, every ranked ladder, seasons, tournaments, replays, live spectating, rooms, the map maker and the academy. Supporting the platform buys recognition, not advantage.
No account tier is required to queue, climb or win anything.
Billed by Paddle in your local currency, tax included where required.
Nothing on this page changes a game. No unit, no map, no rule, no matchmaking priority and no information advantage is ever sold. If a paid benefit could affect a match, it does not ship. That is the whole design constraint, written down before any of it was built.
Iron Curtain is an independent competitive gaming platform, built and run by players. It is not a game and not a mod: it is the client, the matchmaking, the ranked ladders, the tournaments, the replays, the live spectating and the servers that carry matches between continents. It runs today on Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge, a twenty-five-year-old game that never had a competitive home, and it was written from nothing to give it one.
Money from this page funds exactly three things:
None of that is paywalled. Competing here has been free since the first day and will stay free; what you buy on this page is the platform's ability to keep going and to keep building.
Fire Bulbs are the platform's cosmetic currency. Supporters receive an allowance each month and spend it on profile frames, badges and other cosmetics in the shop. They are a licence to use those items inside the platform: they hold no cash value, cannot be transferred between accounts, and cannot be converted back into money. Every movement is recorded in a ledger, so a balance can always be reconciled — and a refund reverses the entry that created it.
Not everyone wants a subscription, and some people want to give more than a subscription ever would. Support packs are a single payment — no renewal, nothing to cancel. Each one credits Fire Bulbs to your account and counts in full toward your lifetime support, so a pack moves you up the levels below immediately.
The Fire Bulbs each pack credits are shown at checkout. Packs stack with each other and with a subscription — lifetime support is the total of everything you have ever given, and it never expires or resets. Levels above VIP 8 are planned; support past it is banked against them.
Levels progress on lifetime support, not on whether you are currently subscribed. Someone who supported the platform for a year and stopped keeps what they earned; a level that evaporates when a card expires punishes exactly the people it is meant to thank.
| Level | Lifetime support | Reached at $4.99/month |
|---|---|---|
| VIP 1 | $5 | month 1 |
| VIP 2 | $15 | month 3 |
| VIP 3 | $30 | month 6 |
| VIP 4 | $50 | month 10 |
| VIP 5 | $75 | month 15 |
| VIP 6 | $100 | month 20 |
| VIP 7 | $150 | month 30 |
| VIP 8 | $200 | month 40 |
Recognition unlocked across those levels is cosmetic, social or advisory:
Iron Curtain sells no games and supplies no game files. You must already own and have installed a legitimate copy of any game you play here. Nothing on this page is a purchase of a game or of any part of one.
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