Apple and Patreon (Patreon)

Hello hello!

Soooo, you have probaby heard about the news now, but, due to apple's pressure on patreon, some changes are going to happen soon on the platform concerning the billing system and the prices themselves.

On one side of things, the multiple options patreon has been offering to creators when it coems to billing, will be reduced to the single subscription model. This means the "start of the month" subscription and the "per post" billing will be removed in the future.

While probably not the end of the world to me, I have to admit I did find the "start of month" method way more practical on my end, as it's easier to tell what is being pledge each month on a single date, and specially helps with the sketch tier that requires me to know if the pledge has been paid at the start of the month in advance.

More so, and probably most importantly, Apple has decided that by the end of next month, that for every pledge made through the Apple store, they will be taking 30% of the pledge for themselves, be it by increasing the price for the customer, or by making the creator pay the fee temslves. Needless to say, that is an absurd number to ask.

I don't know how popular the apple app is when it comes to patreon use, but , when it comes to subscribing, I will strongly suggest to avoid the apple app entirely, and simply do it through the regular browser, free of that absurd extra fee.

There is simply no reason for apple to just take such an amount for themselves just for existing.

I have no clue what those big corporations are thinking, but this just feels like an insult to the creators themselves , and reaaaaally didn't need to be.

I would have apreciated more if patreon had declined the offer altogether, but well ... I guess they at least were transparent about it ...

Oh well, we shall see how this proceeds.

Thank you all for your continuous support ^^