Patreon is changing how subscriptions work, here's the deal: (Patreon)
Content
TL,DR: Patreon is getting rid of Per-Creation subscriptions next year (2025), so we'll have to re-do our tiers on a Per-Month subscription. We'd like your input.
Hi everyone, you might have gotten a note from Patreon that they're changing their payment system. Long story short, Apple is forcibly implementing new payment terms, with the result that Patreon has to switch all per-creation subscriptions to per-month subscriptions by the end of next year. Oh no, that's us! D:
We've had our page on per-creation since the very beginning in 2017, and we really like it that way because you only pay us when we make a video for you. When, say, we take two weeks off each January, you get charged less in that month. It keeps us on our weekly schedule and ensures you always get what you pay for.
It was a system that served this community for years, but such is the internet under the tech giants. By the end of next year, Patreon will switch all the remaining per-creation pages into per-month, so we'll have to adjust our tiers in a couple ways. We usually put out four videos a month – meaning most of you get charged (your tier)x4 per month – and that means the most likely thing we'll have to do to compensate for the change in format is adjust up the tier costs up by a factor of four, but we're very open to suggestions at this stage.
So right now we'd like to hear from YOU.
We want to make a tier system that doesn't suck, so we'd like your input on what you'd like to see –
Do you enjoy the current tier rewards?
Is there anything we don't offer that you wish we did?
Do specific tier rewards make a difference to your pledge?
Do you feel like you're getting a good value for the price of your pledge?
Any feedback will be helpful as we plan this out. We'll plan this carefully and telegraph any big changes far ahead of time, but since Apple has forced everyone's hand, we might as well start planning now.
As ever, thank you all for your generous support of our art. It's meant the world to us since we launched this page, and it will continue to be the channel's #1 support pillar in the future.
-R&B