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Hey everyone,
We've been discussing for a while and have decided to restructure our Patreon tiers to make them a bit less top-heavy and give everyone a bit more bang for their buck. What we have below is our idea for the new structure, and we want to get your feedback on it. In addition, we've been considering making our Patreon 18+ and offering more NSFW rewards, and we want your feedback on that, too. We'll be polling our Twitter followers and fanbase for their opinions on if they'd like to see 18+ rewards from us as well. The tier restructuring itself will happen later this month, once we've had some time to collect feedback.

Our current idea is to reduce the number of tiers we have to just three: $1, $5, and $20 tiers.
The $1 tier wouldn't change a whole lot from where it currently is, but would also come with a special role color in our Discord server, too. So the rewards would be that plus access to our general updates.
The $5 tier would have those too, plus access to a new Patrons-only channel in the server. Most importantly, $5 would now get you access to both creative and technical posts. 
The $20 tier will have all of those things, plus they'd still get access to the sneak peeks and game keys on release. The $20 tier will also have access to sneak peeks of future projects, formerly an exclusive of the $100 tier. Because we can't provide these on a regular schedule, they won't be added into the tier rewards, but we hope you'll enjoy them regardless. Finally, we'll be moving the "name in credits" reward down to this level. Anyone who's supported us at the $50 or $100 tiers will get ~extra flair~ for their name in the credits for HotW, as a token of our appreciation since we're making this reward more accessible.
Another big change is how we'll be handling beta access. We're planning to do away with beta access as a reward tier, because we don't feel that we release beta content enough to justify the cost. Instead, we'll be changing beta participation to an invite system in the future, which will include a couple of our Patrons - not restricted to a specific tier. If you've already been pledging to us at that tier, you'll be guaranteed an invitation whenever we do one.
Now for 18+ content. First of all, just to reiterate, we're not dead set on changing to an 18+ Patreon. We'll be opening a poll to see what you all think before implementing this, taking answers not only from you all, but from our followers on Twitter. If we do make the change, most of our NSFW content would most likely be separate from our games themselves. We would like to create media that isn't tied to our current IPs, but still "our style." These could be comics, illustrations, short stories, etc. Any NSFW content tied to our games would be treated as a non-canon exclusive, and may or may not be drawn by the main artist. We would make NSFW posts accessible at a $10 tier, and then of course the $20 would still have everything. For any NSFW posts, we'll be sure to keep the titles of posts non-explicit and won't use thumbnail images, so if you're pledged at the $20 level, you won't have to see that content if you don't want to.
Also, just as a side note, regarding Celeste Academy: we're still working on it, but have decided to sit down together and rework it some. Basically, we left too many details open-ended which made it really difficult for any of us to write. We're going to be fleshing out Carida, her life, and her world a bit more before we go further with the series. We're really sorry about how long it's been taking, and thank you all for your patience.
Anyway, those are our thoughts on the matter, and so now it's time to hear yours! Please let us know what you think of these ideas in the comments, or feel free to DM us if you're more comfortable with that. We're looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

Comments

Kiri

sounds like an interesting idea for the tiers. I like the way you'll be handling NSFW content!

Mire

I like having the technical posts at $5; they sound interesting but $10 a month is a bit pricey for them. I'm not personally interested in NSFW, but I could see other people wanting that, so do whatever you think is best.

DrYuriMom

I think this sounds reasonable. Having a few more people at the sneak peek level will perhaps actually move me back up there. I felt when I was alone there that I just annoyed some people.