The "The Dollar is Murdering our Budget help!!!" Update (Patreon)

This is Alfabusa, here for an incredibly boring but necessary economic briefing!
Woooooo

So!
Our frightful little studio-thing is being hit hard by the dollar value sinking like a rock.

And I mean this in no uncertain terms.

For context:

Our studio is based in Sweden with seven employees and a myriad of freelancers abroad, and we pay out to our employees in the Swedish Krona.

However, we are paid by both Makeship, Google Adsense and, most importantly, you here on Patreon primarily through the world-renowned US Dollar.

Throughout 2024, the USD reached a peak up and against the Swedish Krona with 1 Dollar being worth 11,15 Kronor. A fantastic exchange rate for us! Insanely huge!

With the boost in support we got here on Patreon happening at the same time, we were able to give more people solid job opportunities, and further increase the quality of our work.

Throughout 2025 and now into 2026, the Dollar has fallen by a whole 2.15 Swedish Kronor. Going from being worth 11,15 SEK to, at the time of writing, being worth 9.02 SEK.
It has priorly this year reached as low as 8.70 SEK, and projections look all the grimmer across the next few years.

To make it less abstract, this practically means we've lost 59 853 Swedish Kronor a month, 6630 USD when converted back into USD as of this moment.

Two entire monthly wages for us!

Bad!!!!

And that is, to add salt to the wounds, with our Patreon support only having gone down slightly throughout the year. Hell, its even increased as of the last update thanks to you!

So, like...
It's all has been wholly outside of our control, just the wretched spectre of current US politics having a very immediate and damaging result on our work and lives.

While this has been largely outside of our control, we've had to try and do something.
We can't just leave this to chance.
Things are looking shakey and we need to future-proof this fucker before we explode.

So, there are some things we can do to help mitigate it.
Which we will go through now!...

Changing our default currency

So, the default currency on our page has always been the US Dollar.

It's been the default on the website at large for the longest time and our page reaches all the way back to the halcyon age of 2014.

However, as of fairly recently, Patreon has provided the option to migrate from the default currency to alternative currencies.

And this is something we've now gone through with, to the Euro, a currency more local to us that is not actively perishing at this time.

It wasn't exactly the supreme ideal for us as it does cost a percentage of the full sum in conversion rates. But, the conversion rate is still smaller in comparison to the amount we lose by sticking to USD.

Important to note!
This does NOT change YOUR pledge!

If you donated in USD, it will not suddenly change.

And anyone who wants to donate in USD in the future will have the choice to do so.

However, this solution is not perfect...

The change from USD to EUR is something of a band-aid on a large, vile, undulating gash.

Because even if we're paid out in EUR, we are still largely being paid in USD,
as most people here have obviously donated in the default USD.

So, we're going to need to go a bit further to actually get this hole patched more properly.

With that, the next thing to discuss is...

Call to Action

Oh we sure love doing those...

Listen, being at the mercy of grassroots financing is certainly a whole lot better in pretty much every way compared to being at feet of major shareholders in a publicly traded company.

The hardest part is always asking for more.

You've come through for us on so many critical occasions already that doing just that feels ... Not Good.

We've built our whole channel off of good-will from our viewers, and this act on our part always chaves at that good-will. It's not a trade we like making.

But, we're now in a uniquely stupid situation, and we genuinely wouldn't have to do this if it weren't for US Government shitting the bed in every way it is possible to shit a bed and then rolling around in it.

But septic bed aside though, what are we even asking for?

Two things!

Obviously, the standard thing of asking for more support from anyone who can afford it and... well, wants to! This will always always always help and we want you to know that we are injecting 50,000 miligrams of our appreciation into your skull vein as we speak.

The other thing we'd ask, if at all possible, is for anyone who supports us in the future, anyone who repledges, or anyone who has the energy to go through with a currency conversion of their own, to donate in our new default currency of EUR instead of the USD.

Our current goal is to try and get our current budget of ~24.500 EUR to 28.000 EUR (converted to USD that is 28.930 USD to 33.063 USD).

That way, we'll be back to the very solid place where we were in late 2024/early 2025.

Now, importantly, we are NOT expecting that this will all be covered by you, our current patrons.

I genuinely think this is too much to ask of you alone.

This is all mostly to inform you of our goals here.

Our intent is to release this information more publicly in a future State of the Ogre video, and hope there are more people out there who feel it an acceptable pursuit.

However, we do not want to release that State of the Ogre video just yet...

We want to make sure we've got some more real, actual stuff released before we release our yearly e-begging video.

We plan to release at least three things before then, which is the next Norfolk Wizard Game, the next H:TP Audiolog and one of those Marckus & Kitten Gamer Podcast things we mentioned last Update.

That way, we'll feel less slimey about doing it, and we'll also have made far more progress on Chapter 6 in the meantime as well.

Until then, we believe we'll be able to coast on the cash infusion provided by the latest Makeship campaign, as well as even the standard amount we're already provided here on Patreon (not even gonna talk about Google Adsense its a joke in January-February and that shit is also paid out in USD).

...

And I believe that is that, for now.

We're still looking at other options to pursue as well, but we have confidence that we'll get through this thanks to you fine and beautiful people.

Otherwise, we'll keep you updated on the state of things.

And, of course, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

... for your support.

We are ever grateful for you allowing us all this.