The Future of Exiern: An Update (Patreon)
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Remembered we have a blog tag and that I haven't used this in a while. Work and family occasionally takes me around the world a bit, in a short space of time it's taken me from Sydney, Australia (where I'm from) to Seoul, South Korea (where I'm writing this) to final stop Sapporo, Japan where I have a conference. So, I thought I'd better write this now in case I had any computer or Internet issues (had to run around to buy new adaptor plugs and just in case I'm not as covered for Japan as I thought, you might have an idea of what happened.
Once I get this last trip out of the way in the first week of March, I should have some free time to get back more to Exiern than I have. Just wanted to let you all know that we never stop thinking about making sure you all get value for your money but also how to ultimately get Exiern to pay for itself.
Patrons on the higher tiers ($5 and $10 especially) haven't been forgotten and you know I'm good for making up for any months of inactivity such that you ultimately shouldn't be any worse off than had things being run regularly. For the $5 tier, we do want to make sure something of at least equal value to Neese is up and running as soon as possible. We're working on everything as quickly as possible.
In the longer term, I do want to have a discussion about the operational future of Exiern and how it still runs at a financial loss. Don't worry, this isn't an attempt to fundraise or guilt trip to fundraise or anything like that. We've all been very grateful for any and all financial support and free time alone is valuable, there's so much competing demand for what is also a limited resource and we have to ear that from every one of our readers as well.
So, the TL;DR of the above is that I'm hoping to brainstorm some more ideas with everyone, there has to be something we haven't tried to start closing the deficit gap. Lots of other webcomic and other creators have expressed their willingness to help and many have been doing so already (looks like Exiern's age and reputation is still worth something to all those admittedly more financially successful webcomics at this time than ourselves, hopefully some of it rubs off!).
Anyway, on top of everything else, hopefully more content from existing stories soon but also entirely new things as well. More news about what's going on coming soon as well!
Best wishes and thanks again everyone!