Patreon and their new stupid charge system (and how AiD will deal with it) (Patreon)

So I'm guessing many of you have heard about the news. Patreon is changing how fees will be processed starting from December 18th.  They are now charging a 2.9% fee + 35 cent per transaction. It is my understanding that these charges were originally paid by us, AiD (which is the only way it makes sense because why should YOU have to pay MORE to GIVE US money!?) but Patreon for some reason has shifted this burden onto you, the Patrons. 

I have no fucking idea why they are doing this. They're probably lining their coat pockets with the extra transactions since there's really no other logical reason why this would make any sense at all. I know precisely 0 people that has complained about the previous structure and it is quite infuriating that the folks over at Patreon have shown blatant disregard to people who pledge a lower amount. Just to clarify, we at AiD do not have the option to opt out of this because it's going to be a system wide change that's being forced upon the community. 

Patreon is vital to us. I'm sure I don't have to tell you but games generally don't tend to sell on Steam outside of a sale and this site has given us a way to operate outside of Steam's sale structure. It pays for a majority of our assets and human resource costs. It's the only reason we can make bold decisions like make everything in 4K and have 30+ backgrounds that are parallax enabled and not have to worry about going bankrupt doing these crazy things. It's also your contribution, big or small, that gives me and the team motivation to press forward in the darkest of times. There have been days were I just want to throw the towel in but seeing a positive review on Steam with a subsequent e-mail from Patreon telling us a new patron has joined with the same Steam username is the kind of thing that gives me the energy and assurance that people give a shit about what we do here.

So enough talk. What are we going to do? When and if this change takes place (many creators are complaining about it directly to Patreon as they should), we're going to adjust prices to an ugly number so you don't have to pay extra. 

This is what the new prices will look like when and if the change takes place:

Singlekravter - $4
Dualkravter - $9
Triplekravter - $19
Quadkravter - $38
Quinkravter - $48
Vibaelia - $145
Canvas - $775

Look at all these ugly numbers.

We'll take the hit because you shouldn't have to. It's ridiculous that I have to even say this. 

There might be further changes to the tier amounts in the future but we'll assure you that you won't have to pay more for what you signed up for. If you intended to pay 10 dollars, we'll make sure you only spend 10 dollars. Though unfortunately there's not much we can do about the espresso tier... I really wish we could do something about it but I'm dry on ideas. I'm so terribly sorry.

If all this kerfuffle has scared you away from pledging any further, I don't blame you. I'll keep saying this over and over but we are always always grateful of your contributions and cannot thank you all enough. You guys are awesome and we wouldn't be here without you. 

Thats all I have for now... let's hope we can convince Patreon that this bone-headed move.

With much love,

-Munisix + AiD team