Current State of 8BitStereo Uploads & Tier Updates (Patreon)

Hey everyone, some of you most likely have seen this already in the Community tab of my Youtube channel, but wanted to apologize on the current state of slow 8BitStereo uploads recently, I know everyone understands I do 8BitStereo (and frankly all the projects I work on) in my free time which I've had very little lately, between dealing with personal IRL situations and more so a financial hit I took in October I had to take extra days at my job and even more to take care of what has happened, and that leaves me absolutely exhausted day to day and especially on days I have off with my free time.

But I absolutely thank everyone that still supports here as the Payout this time (which I do once in a year usually) has helped cushion the hit I took in October but still needed to work lots to be secure in the future. I know all of you Patrons support out of the kindness of your hearts and for the thanks of what I have done over the years, but I will make sure to show your support on the NikoTengoku YouTube channel as well, I've been able to get general "scripts" down and actually have voice over potential on my VGM topic ideas, so I'll be glad to bust another original video out when I can.

Also with that, I am altering the Tiers, and a major one is changing into the new year the price of Tier 1 to $2, a slight alteration that has actually been advised to me to do by some Patrons and other users that have seen what I have up here due to Patreon's fees (Basically a pledge of $1 vs $2 is a difference of 67% vs 82% that reaches me) and if anything give more incentive to support at Tier 2 as that is going to have the best perk to it. I'm also simplifying the Rewards, focusing now to having Tier 2 (Or any pledge above $5) have on screen thanks for supporting here (at the end of the OST's with the 8BS outro animation). Obviously the Patreon isn't what keeps 8BitStereo going (as is the usual idea of featuring names at the end of a channels content) but I figure most of you would appreciate the actual representation on those videos for supporting in the time you have.

The Previews are staying and image will just be a close up in-game screenshot along with the usual preview of one of the songs from the OST. I figured the early MP3 download was a nice bonus but usually the videos are put up shortly after showing what upload is next that it isn't that big an exclusive, plus I'm sure most of you wait until the actually video is up anyway. With the little time I have, making this more streamlined and less stressful having to worry about all these little things I needed to do will make things feel so much better for myself, so thank you for understanding and I hope the new benefit of being thanked on 8BitStereo videos now will be more worthwhile!

With that, I do my best as well keeping up for the VGMusicNTidbits twitter, and the monthly mixes at 8Beats.co are thankfully the easiest thing for me to still keep up on. So wherever you enjoy the content I make, thank you for participating and enjoying in it, it means a lot and I hope to pick up more progress into the new year where I'll thankfully be able to drop amount of days I've been working so I can give back with 8BitStereo uploads and more! <3