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IMPORTANT: Changes to Our Tiers
🕑 Added 2023-06-01 16:05:09 +0000 UTCHello all, Eddie here! I wanted to update you all on the status of our Patreon and let you know of upcoming changes to our tiers and benefits.
Let me start by saying that these changes were brought on by ourselves - we've noticed we've been overly-ambitious without reason, trying to expand into comics and other larger projects. We didn't check our scope and didn't properly budget our time and effort.
We've been awful at communicating any of this to you guys, leaving you all in the dark as to where the scheduled monthly posts were, when in the background we were trashing unsuccessful large projects, discarding weeks of work.
I informed some of our higher tiers already of our changing pricing system since we wanted to make sure they understood what we were doing.
To avoid disappointing our patrons further and to more reliably distribute and finish workloads, we will be changing the tier structure and benefits. We encourage all patrons to read these changes in full, as all tiers are affected in some way.
You can see the changes we'll be rolling out slowly over the course of this month! Read on below...
$2 tier:
Patrons of this tier will no longer be able to:
- Suggestions via DM or on our Discord
Patrons have submitted many ideas, but since we were free to pick and choose which ideas we wanted to turn into drawings, a majority of suggestions fell by the wayside. We feel it's misleading to advertise being able to submit suggestions/ideas as a benefit, as it may mislead people into believing that their suggestions are likely/guaranteed to be turned into artwork by us.
Suggestions will instead be turned into something else that you will see in the $10 tier. π
$5 tier:
Changing:
- View our Comic Pages 2 months before public release
- View our Animation work 2 months before public release
This tier will still be able to view our animation and comic work, but it will be 2 months after it has been posted in the $10 tier. Longer animations will be available to view here 4 months after it has been posted.
Aside from these changes, $5 tier will have the same exact rewards and benefits (such as being able to vote in polls)! We don't want to change this tier too much since it's already good as it is, we'll just delay the viewing of some content for later (but still before public release!)
$10 tier:
Patrons of this tier will be able to:
- View our Animation work 4 months before public release
- View our Comic Pages 4 months before public release
- x2 votes per character poll, and access to all polls we do
- Suggest A Single Character Pin-Up per Month (suggestions with the Most Likes will be included in the following poll)
This tier will be able to view our comic pages and animation work (excluding longer form animations) first as soon as they're posted. Longer form animations will first be posted in the $15 tier before downgrading to the $10 tier for 2 months, then after two months will go to the $5 tier.
One of the biggest additions is the ability for this tier to suggest a character for us to draw per month, and whichever character gets the most likes in the post will be available in the following poll. This change will make this tier have the ability to make us draw characters were generally not used to and will be a good way to experiment with styles and ideas. β₯
Patrons of this tier will no longer be able to:
- View WIPs of animations & other projects (such as comics, possible game projects, etc.)
This will be in the $15 tier.
$15 tier:
Patrons of this tier will be able to:
- View our Longer Animation work 6 months before public release
- View WIPs of animations & other projects (such as comics, possible game projects, etc.)
The $20 tier is being downgraded to $15 to make the price and tier more reasonable and in line with the jumps of the other tiers.
One of the biggest benefits of this tier is the ability to view WIPs of our animations as well as comics and possible game projects as we're working on them! We want to make this exclusive to this tier since the $10 tier will be able to see the finished animations eventually anyways so this being exclusive to the $15 tier will be a nice benefit to joining it!
This tier will be able to view our longer form animation work here first 2 months earlier before it downgrades to the $10 tier.
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As a little bonus and our lack of transparency, here's our current, DEFINED plans as of right now:
- Finishing the Bubsy-Blinx monthly project.
- Finishing our current commissions on queue.
- Finishing the last couple pages of "Pink Γ‘ la mode".
- Slowly but surely working on the bigger animation project.
And our current POSSIBLE plans for when we are done with the above are:
- Working on the Pink Panther Pinup that got 2nd place on the April poll.
- A possible animation loop soon? ΰΌΌ γ€ β_β ΰΌ½γ€
We may have other things unplanned scenarios for the near future but these are what we have currently set in stone!
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I hope these changes won't upset you guys. We just felt the $5 tier was way too good of a choice and the later tiers were functionally useless. We want to change it to be this way to integrate more of you guys into our workflow instead of less, since before you guys have virtually no input into what we did aside from polls. The new revamped suggestions will make you have more control over what we do, and we want to more active again here so you guys know what we're up to. β₯
Thank you again, and please tell us in the comments (or even in DM) if you find these fair or unfair! We want to be as transparent as possible when it comes to making changes and I hope increasing the price of certain things won't turn you off. We want to do more, and one of our biggest things going forward is more animations! Animation is very fun and our biggest strength, so I think we should capitalize on that. ^^
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~Eddie
Comments
Boone
Sounds like you just needed to replace your headwear with a fresh pair.
Billy-Billie
I think this sounds reasonable. I'm guessing the changes in prices will start in July as the June charges just happened.
