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Patreon Reward Tiers (Patreon)

Published:
2020-07-14 18:36:24
Imported:
2026-06

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I just spent a couple hours trying to record a commentary on my last video. My plan was this could be a new type of patreon only content that wouldn’t take much time to make as there would be no scripting or editing, just talking into a mic podcast style, and maybe people would find it interesting to hear more of my thoughts on a video I’ve made. I always have more to talk about with a game, and there’s always things brought up in comments or just thoughts on the video itself. So this seemed like a good idea and I figured I could turn this into the $6 reward tier and keep the written monthly updates for everyone. One problem though….

It turned out kind of shit.

So I scrapped it. Maybe I just need practice at talking without a script. Maybe I’ll try this idea again one day. I’m not sure. But for now this doesn’t seem to be the solution to my patreon reward tier problem, and I’m also very aware that some time has passed now and I still haven’t sorted this out, so it’s weighing heavily on my mind and I figured I’d ask you people for input directly.


The problem is I only have two reward ideas I like: Patreons can vote on video ideas and Name in credits. Until now I’ve been including $6 people in credits (after the $9 people), until the last video where it was $9 people only because I was planning to make a commentary on it but that didn’t work and now I’m at a bit of a loss. So this is what I’m thinking of:

- Change the reward tiers to 2 tiers only, keep prices at $3 and $9 (or change from patreon pro to patreon lite, which means you are only allowed 1 tier but I get a slightly higher cut from patreon), also can offer refunds to any $6 or $9 people who would like them.


I’m also open to suggestions on reward tiers people would like to see. Some ideas (which don’t really seem that good but are still ideas): Q&A, early access to videos, discord stuff, written reviews or written thoughts on last video. I’m open to doing these things but I’m just not sure how much they feel worth it to you guys. There will be a proper channel update later this month because I have a few things to say, but I wanted to talk about reward tiers now. 

So, thoughts?

Comments

Nicolas Keller

First sorry for my English, not my first language. I couldn't be more agree with the comments. I support you because of the quality of your videos. I can't imagine the amount of work a 1 hour (or more) video is. And the quality is always here, from my point of view. I don't really care about what reward or privilege I got with my tier. But I can guess too, that special reward can attract more people. The only thing that, for mee, can be interesting is a Q&A, learn more about your process of writing and work. And to finish, thank you for the quality content you produce. And, again, sorry if there is some grammar issue on my comment.

Angel Of The Past

Hey sorry for being late to the party, but I was just catching up on everything you post Sorry if this is long winded, I'll try and keep it in a good format and grammatically correct so it's not the worst thing ever to read. As I've gone through your updates I noticed you have a struggle with deciding a release strategy and how to compensate you Patreon followers. First I'd like to say I came here to support you because I (like everyone here) just loves your videos, and the reason I started supporting is because I'll do anything I can to make it easier for you to create more. I know that may put some pressure on you to create, but that's not why anyone of us decided to pledge so try to be calm about it. Second, everything you make is great, and I can see that being a problem for you. You seem to hold yourself to a VERY high standard. I think this is where you can reward your patrons, and improve as a creator the easiest. Making bad content can feel bad, and if it under performs it can feel even worse. However you have us patrons to help with that. I would say we are some of your biggest fans (but not all, obviously money is spent where it needs to be most and some fans may not be able to part with that money.) So why don't you post experimental things you worry about here, only for us (and if it's a hit post it on YouTube). It's not keeping premium content away from the masses as it is experimental, and we get a little extra. Remember we don't pay for exclusive content, so giving us anything extra is nice (and practice for you). Finally, (I know this is a wild fucking post, sorry) I wanted to talk about your content flow. I know the things you post can be over an hour long, that requires over an hour of footage and hours of editing, recording, writing, re-writing, re-re-writing, re-editing, re-recording and so on. You make long form, high quality content and that's what draws us to you. Adding anything on, be it a new game, or anything adds hours of creation time. It also adds hours of play, because lets be honest some games can take FOREVER to get the full amount out of it. So I wanted to suggest a new kind of content for you that could help mitigate some of that time, sub-plot content. Smaller 10-20 minute videos that goes in depth on a single sub-plot from a game you enjoy. Example would be as follows. In Dragon Age Inquisition there are the War Table missions. It's VERY easy to miss a really cool sub-plot for a npc named D. Southerland. Depending on how you give him missions (starting with "New to the Crew: A Young Hopeful" and ending several missions later with "A Company of Heroes"). Talking about how cool this is, or how much that adds to the story would take a short amount of time, and would add onto the Dragon Age influx of people you received, while not having to play any extra games, or do much more screen capping than you already did. You may not find this particular sub-plot interesting, but the point I'm trying to make is this could solve some of your time issues, while also banking on the influx of people coming to each new individual video. A person sees your Dragon Age Video, enjoys it, see's there's 1-3 more shorter ones, watches them and hits that follow button. In the end these are all suggestions and praise because I just really like your content and want to see more. Don't feel obliged to do anything about what I said, I just love your content. Honestly I wish you could do this full time, and I'd like to do what I can to make that happen. I love this content and the more I can get my grubby American hands on, the better.