About recent Patreon changes. (Patreon)

We are doing this post because it seems there is a little confusion about what is happening with this fees.

What are this fees?

This fees doesn't comes from Patreon, this comes from your banks, credit card paypal... But this is not something new, its a charge from transaction that financial entities always do. If you ever were in a little shop, made a small purchase, tried to pay with credit card and the seller refuses to accept it if you didn't bought something more or at least gave you a bad look, this fees are why he/she did that.

Also this charges were already applied to your pledges but were charged to creators.

What is the reason Patreon do this?

What Patreon said is, if this fees are distributed between all patrons, instead of being all charged on the creator, the creator will be more funded.

What do we think?

Apparently this would mean more funding to us, creators, but we know this will make most patrons at least rethink their support. Some can't afford it and some doesn't want to accept it so, maybe, what it's meant to suppose an increase of income for creator, at the end of the day, it's not.

Of course for on side, we are happy to doesn't have to deal with that charges but for the other, we are not sure if it's for the better make you deal with it. In any case, we think Patreon have good intention, and what they want is to help creators. We are not sure if this is the better way but only time will say...