Changes to the Patreon Content, Tier Rewards, and Going Forward (Patreon)
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Finally finished what I needed to finish.
I want to make some changes moving forward to better fit my current situation (the lack of privacy and all) so that I can get more posts on here. It's already more than halfway through the year and I've barely made any posts relative to the first year I launched the Patreon.
Before getting into it, I'd like to preface that NSFW content will still be a mainstay haha. I know the title and the header text makes it seem like I'm going to stop doing them - I absolutely will not stop making NSFW content.
I also want to thank you guys, dearly, for deciding to support my endeavors financially. Especially the ones that kept their subscriptions up when my father passed away 2 years ago.
It really fucking means a lot!
Content and Exclusives
To get started, if I want to make more Patreon exclusives, I’m going to try to centralize my sketching and WIP updates on the Patreon, so I’m making them free to view for free members once the entire project is done. I thought it a good way to at least incentivize eyes on the page. I’ve already mentioned this plan on some of the posts I’ve been updating.
Unfortunately, NSFW sketches will need to remain under paywall since Patreon themselves do not allow that type of content visible to the public (e.g. non-paying members).
Tier Rewards
To counter-act more exclusive content, I also want to change my membership pricing and benefits to hopefully balance things out. I want to make every tier get equal benefits. So, no more exclusive rewards outside of a cool title and “badge”. Every available Tier from now on will have equal benefits! Yay communism!
It really sucks that my lack of privacy to draw hardcore pornography really gets in the way of content being made, and obviously that also gets in the way of focusing on Tier exclusive rewards. It really doesn’t sit right with me that, while I’m incredibly grateful, some of you guys are paying me more for less.
I'll be sure to update the Discord archive after 2 years of neglecting to post anything on there.
I’m also not sure when I’ll be able get that privacy back anytime soon, so my content patterns need to adjust to that.
Pricing Changes - EDITED! (What a wrench in my plans grrr)
I’m lowering the 1st Tier (Comrade) to $1 USD instead of $3 USD. Same goes for the next two tiers (Comrade Commissar & Comrade Premier), which will now be priced $3 and $9, from $6 USD and $12 USD respectively, since they’re basically going to become glorified tip jars (with cool titles attached to them) if any of you guys want to support my art financially just a lil bit more.
Now, I’m pricing these based on total membership numbers, hoping those free members are going to upgrade to paid members now that the price of entry is much cheaper for my entire Patreon catalog. If the Patreon numbers are correct, there's 900 members that can potentially pitch in just $1 USD every month, and it'd be more than enough for me!
I’m already very grateful to the people willing to give me money for my stuff, and thanks to you guys I’m actually able to do this as a job, even if I’m basically living paycheck to paycheck (at least with the prior plans available to you guys).
My current pricing and active membership numbers give me just enough for an entire month and I’m more than grateful for that, and with the changes I'm setting up, I'm still hoping I'll still be able to get a consistent amount every month.
However, to end this post, I really want to say that if this plan doesn't work and not enough people budge, I will unfortunately have to need to re-adjust things somewhere back to baseline. Something close, or similar, to the prior payment plans I had setup and when I launched the Patreon page.
We will see it when we get there, but I’m hoping we don’t.
If you made to the end, thank you again!