New Patreon fees (Patreon)

Today Patreon should have sent you an email regarding a change in how they handles fees.

With this new service creators  get a bigger % of the pledges (fees on creators go down from 7~15% of the total to a fixed 5%), while Patrons will have to pay a fee.

Patrons' fee will be of 0.35$ + 2.9% of the pledge. That's going to hit pretty hard the lower tiers (like 1$ Patrons), while the higher levels will be less affected.

Here's NUMBERS:

• $0.379 fee on a $1 pledge
• $0.495 fee on a $5 pledge
• $0.64 fee on a $10 pledge 
• $0.93 fee on a $20 pledge
• $1.8 fee on a $50 pledge
• $3.25 fee on a $100 pledge

Why? 

I don't know for sure, but I guess it involves payment processors and other complicated things.

Feel free to post questions, this matter is being discussed between gamedevs more knowledgeable than me (and with more spare time~)!