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Possible Patreon Revamp Coming (Patreon)

Published:
2018-10-10 14:38:38
Imported:
2022-09

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Hey folks,

I've been thinking recently about revamping the structure of this campaign and I wanted to get your feelings before I put anything into motion.

First off, I've been talking about posting two paintings per month for a long time. Even though the required productivity to do that has returned, I'm glad that I didn't implement it yet. It messes with a couple of structural things having to do with the print rewards and I don't want to suddenly double the cost/prints on people who are already spending an extraordinary amount. If I make this change, there will be lots of notice and it won't happen sooner than Book 2 coming out, if at all. So no worries there.

Collapsing the Reward Tiers

The big change that I'm considering is to collapse the campaign down to just 3 main choices. This is just an idea right now, so please feel free to give feedback. Vote and leave comments if you've got a sec.


$1 - Tip: No rewards

$7.77 - Membership: All available digital rewards, Dropbox Access, 15% discount, Discord, random gifts, etc.

I prefer the idea of making the Patreon less about shopping and more about being part of a club. Creating tiered rewards feels a lot less like people banding together to be part of making this project happen and a lot more like I'm selling you something. Setting a single membership tier feels more in line with the whole point of this thing. This would be a price increase for the majority of you.


$40 - Legacy Print: Membership + Monthly Legacy Prints (ships worldwide)

At this point, I am selling you something but it's still something special and only available on Patreon.

I charge $40 for prints at shows. Increasing the price here would bring this tier in line with the ordinary cost of them and I'd still be paying for the shipping. Even the expensive International shipping (about $23 on average). 


$75 - Collector: Membership + Legacy Print + LE print (ships worldwide)

I'm still sort of amazed that this tier is as popular as it is. You people are amazing. You amaze me. I've got no plans for changing this one. Side note, I've always been capping the number of subscriptions for this at 50. It's currently at 44 I think.

Comments

Anonymous

Well, I just voted by updating my subscription. I've been on the fence about upgrading to True Emanations for a bit but hadn't noticed the cap (thank you for mentioning it in your post!) I love your work and have been a fan for years. Unfortunately, I missed out on a lot of your earlier work due to not being at a point in my life where I could afford to spend the money. Thank you so very much for putting out the Legacy prints. I will echo Jeff Nelson's comments and say that I do love it when you allow us to vote on the Legacy print for the month. I'm still holding out hope for Zachriel, Angel of Memory.

Anonymous

I don't mind the price increase, especially since it gives access to all the digital stuff (dat dropbox tho). What I don't like about it is that it's $7.77. I'd have to pledge $8 just so I didn't have an aneurysm every billing cycle. I can definitely see why a lot of people want a cheaper option to remain; when I first started supporting there was a $2.50 tier that allowed me to do that before things were shuffled around and it became the Chosen tier, which I could afford (even at two paintings per month) by the time of the change. I think that's something that would also need to be clear: how many paintings per month. Because at 1, the $5 tier is great, but at 2 the new system would be cheaper, and that's something people would need to understand.