Moving Forward... (Patreon)

Hey Party Members! Hope you all are doing well. :)

I've got kind of a long post here, but I have some important announcements and questions for you all, so please take the time to read it whenever you have a chance. (I added a TL;DR at the end for anyone who is short on time.)

So it's been over a year now since I launched this Patreon. Things have honestly gone pretty well, and I'm super thankful for each and every one of you who have joined me on this journey. 

I've been thinking a lot recently about how I can improve things in general. I think I have some good ideas, but I figured it would be best to run through it all in a post so you understand my thought process.

First, I'm going to start bundling the Youtube music for new song packs. Truth is, since I have been doing 2 songs a week for Youtube and Patreon (in addition to scoring a handful of games in between), it's been tough to write enough music to produce any new song packs. 

Considering I'm basically writing a song pack each month, I think it would be wise of me to start utilizing that content for new song packs. This is where things get a bit tricky...

I'm also considering using the music I release each Tuesday for new song packs. My concern is that for this past year, this music has been exclusive to you Warriors and Mages. 

The last thing I want to do is make any of you feel like I am taking content away from you, or ripping you off in any way. So I want to throw this out to you guys, is the exclusivity a selling point for you, or would you not care if these songs were also available in song packs??

Just had a thought while writing this: If I do this approach, I could add a couple of bonus songs in as an incentive for Mages. That way you are getting some songs that are unique to your tier. 

Another concern I've had is content overwhelm. It's already been voiced to me by one recent Patron that they were a bit overwhelmed by all the music in the archives. I don't want new people to feel overwhelmed, so I had an idea...

Instead of uploading individual songs, I could bundle each months songs into one zip file. So basically the archives would look something like this:

• Jan 2022
• Feb 2022
• March 2022 

...and so on. Of course there would still be the separation for different tiers.

This would also result in easier to manage archives, as well as less posts from me throughout the month. I'd still do one each week with little updates, things I'm working on, etc. But the songs would come bundled once each month.

So as you can see, I have a lot of thoughts! I have others, but I'd like to see how this pans out first, so we'll tackle those at a later date.

I'd love to get your feedback on these ideas, especially on the song packs and delivering the bulk of the content once a month instead of weekly.

As always, thank you so much for your support! And thanks for taking the time to check this out.

-Bert

TL;DR

• I'm going to start bundling my Youtube Music and selling it in song packs.
• I'd like to use the Patreon Exclusive tunes for this as well, but looking for your feedback on that first.
• I'm considering condensing the archives down to monthly updates to avoid content overload. You'll still receive the same amount of music, but it will release all at once at the beginning of the month, rather than twice a week.