An Important Announcement (Patreon)

tl;dr: most of you will be able to spend less money and keep the same benefits.

So, it's probably no secret that this Patreon campaign isn't doing as well as it was last year, and combined with some other things in my personal life that have made this a truly shitty year, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to address that.  The feedback I get most consistently is that people think that as it is right now, my tiers are too expensive for the benefits they unlock, and I can easily see their thinking, especially with the more story-focused feedback I've gotten from the 2 previous major arcs.

The conclusion I've come to is essentially the only one I really can come to in light of that feedback: I need to reduce prices.  So that's exactly what I'm going to do, starting in November.

However, I've also decided to heavily simplify this campaign - no longer will I have 7 different tiers with 6 different chapter permissions I have to manually update every release day; there's only going to be 2:

$5 tier: 40 chapters ahead of where the free releases are.  Essentially, this is going to be what the $20 tier is right now.

$10 tier: The ultra-special shiny mega tier where you get your name in the credits, plus the 40 chapters.  This is what the $25 tier is right now.

I understand that this is leaving the $1 and $3 patrons out in the cold a little, and for that, I do apologize.  Naturally, I would love continuing to give you an incentive to keep giving me money in any amount you want, as the campaign has been run thus far, but I think that keeping things simple like this is the best middle-ground for ensuring this campaign's sustainability and value.

Now, 'how is this going to work?' I hear you ask.  Well, Patreon doesn't exactly make that as easy as it could be.  I can't edit tier prices while there are people who are actively subscribed to them, but I can delete them, which will leave you still subscribed, but technically 'tier-less'.  You'll have to re-subscribe at for the new tiers once they've been launched.

As for when that's going to happen, that'll be on the 30th, six days from today, so that everyone can read the releases that are available at whatever tier they happen to be before the change eliminates some of those tiers.  There's no need to constantly check when it's been done, though, I'm going to send out a message to everyone still subscribed to update your pledge once it's over.  So make sure your notifications are on, and be sure to get your pledge updated before midnight on the 31st, so that you're not charged your old tier price on the 1st.

=)