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Question to my most generous fans.
🕑 Added 2019-12-07 17:59:30 +0000 UTCTL;DR: Are you okay with your tier rewards? Is there something else we can offer you?
Hey guys. First of all, of course - thank you. Your decision to commit such a sizable chunk of your monthly income to us, means a world. More than anything, it shows us that we're doing something right.
Which means it would be only appropriate to make sure you get something special in return.
So this post is about 25$ and 50$ tiers, and their rewards.
First let's take a look at the 50$ tier. Current 50$ patrons - I would like to make sure you get your worth of rewards. Current 25$ patrons - I would like to know if there's ever something I can offer you, that would make you want to go up a tier.
Now, originally, there was a one time sketch commission reward for 50$ tier - however, we've decided to cancel it. (Btw, if you still haven't received yours, please message me about it) One-time rewards just kinda don't make sense for Patreon. Unfortunately, we can't make it a monthly thing either - any decently good-looking sketch can easily take 1-2 days to finish, or more, so doing that even for 5 people every month can take upwards of a week, which is just too much.
There also was a reward that said "You get to see commission slots 24 hours earlier than everyone else" - it was also removed. It's problematic in several ways, one of which is that we just don't know when and how often we will be ever opening commissions. And having you sit there and pay every month for a chance at something that may not come for a long time, just doesn't feel right.
So for now, the only reward that is left unique to 50$ tier, is the ability to influence polls. Which, honestly, looked to me as a pretty fun ability (especially if everything goes according to plan and we will have a bunch of regular polls on all sorts of decisions). That ability can allow you, for example, to make sure the specific theme or character gets made into the next art, etc... Well, for some reason that never have been used ever, so far.
Regardless, it's clearly not enough as the only unique benefit. But, as much as we've been racking our brains about it, we couldn't come up with anything that at the same time would be special and worthy enough, available monthly/regularly, and still not take way too much time out of our normal working schedule.
So we decided to just go ahead and ask you about it. Is there anything you want to see added as a reward?
And about 25$ tier - It's slightly less of a problem, since it's less of a difference over its previous tier, and we feel that a completely exclusive pages or artworks is a pretty strong reward (even though there was none up till now... Sorry, the first one is coming soon).
So we mostly believe 25$ tier rewards are fine - however, since we're here, I might as well ask. Are you alright with your rewards? Is there anything else you'd want?
Please leave your replies in the comments.
