No Rolls Barred Pricing Update (Patreon)

Hello NeRBs! 

It’s me, Laurie from No Rolls Barred, with a much needed Patreon Update! First of all we want to say a massive thank you to every single person who has ever supported us on Patreon. We genuinely mean it when we say we could not continue to do this without you and your support has allowed us to grow NRB to the point it’s at now.

But I’m going to level with you, this year has been tough: the money we make from YouTube has drastically decreased. Despite all of the ads they’re serving you guys, it’s not being passed along to creators. Most of our videos barely cover direct costs (cast, crew, editing) and bigger projects like Monopoly… But, because of their extra preparation time, lose us money even while being the best performing videos on the channel.  

Some of our costs have also gone up, largely due to inflation, rising rents and energy prices, but also some quality of life stuff like new equipment, higher rates for our freelance cast, and new hires like Production Coordinator Ben, our production assistant Courtney, Dan the Business Admin Man and more - which are all essential to us delivering an average 10 videos a month on NRB alone.

We’ve resisted raising the prices of our Patreon for three years now, but the way YouTube is trending, unfortunately we can’t afford to do that any more. So we’re making some increases to our tiers:

$5 will increase to $6.50

$10 will increase to $11.50

$25 will increase to $30

We’ll also be adding a $2 support tier if you want to support without all the extras, and for the time being we will be removing our tiers above $30 while we restructure what we’re offering.

Speaking of restructuring, we’ll be doing some tidying up in our existing tiers to make it clearer what we’re actually offering.

$2 TIER

This is just to support us!

$6.50 TIER

Exclusive Blood on the Clocktower episode (monthly)

King's Dilemma episode (monthly, until its conclusion)

Access to our fan Discord

$11.50 TIER

Exclusive Board Game Club in-studio episode (monthly)

Exclusive Board Game LEGACY in-studio episode (monthly, beginning when King's Dilemma concludes)

$30 TIER

Your name in the credits on all NRB content.

So those are the new tiers! Yes, that does mean we will be saying goodbye to the Uncut Board Game Club episodes. Sadly we found that splitting our audience for each Board Game Club upload hasn’t helped the YouTube side of things (it lowers the viewership for the public version, which the all-powerful YouTube algorithm doesn't like). We also found that Uncut episodes were the Patreon offering people were least excited about in our survey earlier this year, so hopefully this isn’t too much of a blow.

That said, this list doesn’t include other exclusive bits of content like bonus episodes as they come up, and we already have some great stuff in the pipeline: who can guess what we might be working on? 

Please note that this change won’t be coming into effect on Patreon for 30 days, so your subscription won’t be altered until then. On the 27th November, all existing Patreons will have their pledge amounts updated automatically.

Once again I’d just like to say thank you for all of your support, whether you’ve been with us on Patreon for three years or you just joined this month, I genuinely mean it when I say that we couldn’t do this without you, and, if you let us, we hope to keep you well fed with content for years to come.

Stay on Board!

Laurie x