Pausing Patreon Income (No July 1st Charges), Reward Revision (Patreon)

I'll be pausing my Patreon income again for this month, none of my supporters will be charged on July 1st.

I have been working a lot this month, I'm on the verge of completing Arby S8E15 and the plan was to release it by the end of this month, but I'm not gonna manage it. I've been distracted with a surge of work from my other job, of which I'm just now on a more regular schedule I need to make room for, and personal/house errands, not to mention significant mood problems due to world events (hence no streaming and no Byte premiere yet) and I'd rather take the financial hit than wear myself thin these last couple days of the month with non-stop editing, I want to take a bit more time with it.

I'd also like to take the pressure off so I feel good enough to get some streaming done and not feel guilty about it, including podcasts, long overdue commentaries and some video gaming for my new review show.

Admittedly I also took a few cheeky days this month to power through The Last Jedi of Us.

I'd also like to take time just now to rework my Patreon tiers and then adjust the properties of each individual post, which takes a long time, unless there's a faster way but I don't think there is. I want to do this before some changes on Patreon's end regarding sales tax on rewards take effect, but that may only be for physical rewards like shirts or otherwise, I need to look into it a bit more. Either way, the tiers are something I said I'd work on and I want to get it done.

Based on some exit surveys and the way content delivery has panned out over time, the plan is to simplify the amount of tiers to three. A $2 one, a $5 and a $20 one.

The $2 tier will have:

• Early episode access
• Arby episode screenplays

The $5 tier will have:

• Bonus stream content
• Arby episode commentaries
• Production tutorial streams
• Full game playthroughs
• Music track downloads

The $20 tier will have:

• On-screen producer credit

The only reason I'm getting rid of the $1 tier is in response to an email from Patreon recommending so. Of course, higher tiers means Patreon gets more money, but there's another reason that's in the supporters' interest, being that the relatively small proportion of a $1 pledge in combination with the way taxes and Patreon's fees work means less of that pledge goes to me than Patreon and the government. When it's upped to $2, I get the majority of that $2, which is the way I assume my supporters would rather have it.

Let me clarify that me getting rid of the $1 tier will not adjust any of my supporters' pre-existing $1 pledges, as Patreon made clear to me in the same email. Same goes for the other removed tiers. All my supporters' pre-existing pledges will be unchanged, if they want to keep giving me an amount that's not listed in the revised tiers they can continue to do so.

If you have any thoughts or ideas on the tier revision that you think I should consider, please send me a message.

Also if you didn't get a certain reward, such as if you signed up for the on-screen producer credit tier and don't see your name, please reach out to me and I'll fix it. I try to be careful in collecting all the names but I can't help but miss a few individuals apparently, sorry about that. I usually go by the emails I receive automatically whenever I receive a new $20 patron, I may fail to get an email sometimes.

Thank you all for your continued support, I make a point of setting an ethical example as a Patreon creator and not abusing your generosity and I hope you feel you're treated fairly and getting your money's worth. If you're not, feel free to reach out to me for a refund or stop your subscription at any time, no hard feelings, and certainly don't apologize.

Cheers everyone, and stay safe!