March Update! (Patreon)

Hey patrons! Omni here with an update on how things are going with the channel! I'm going to try to release an update like this every month or so.

Planned Website Updates

As you know, we've recently started a new subseries of Smashified called Trophies. We'll be adding a new section of the website for these, which is where all trophies from the channel can be found, as well as some that might skip the channel entirely! I'll be posting some page layout mockups here on patreon in the near future.

Extended Commentary uploads

Until recently, we've been uploading the extended commentaries for any given episode the day that episode releases on the channel. However, due to time constraints, it's been difficult for us to keep to this schedule, as making time to record the hour-long commentaries can be difficult.

So going forward, we'll be posting extended commentaries between episodes. We hope this isn't inconveniencing you too much, and hopefully in the future we can get back to a schedule where it's easy for us to keep the releases parallel, but for now, we'll be posting them whenever we can get them finished up, which in most cases should only be a few days following any given episode. There will probably still be instances where we manage to get it done for the channel release, but it won't be a guarantee.

Process and Resource Pack Release Changes

In order to ensure that we're being fair to everyone who's paying, we'll no longer be releasing the process and resource packs through posts on the blog feed. We'll instead be messaging download links directly to patrons who paid for at least one episode from the previous month.

This way, the download link will only be sent to those who are paying, and we'll be able to protect ourselves from those who might try to take advantage of the system by becoming a patron, downloading the content from the blog post links, and leaving before the payment period arrives. Hopefully this makes sense to all of you.

If you paid for the previous episode but don't receive a reward, please let us know by emailing us at smashifiedart@gmail.com, and we'll rectify the situation. If this method proves to be problematic, we'll work to figure out a better way to make sure everyone gets the rewards that they deserve.

Giveaways!

Also, remember that we will be selecting two of you lovely Patron's will be selected on March 17th for our Giveaway. One winner will be given a copy of Pokemon Red, the other a copy of Pokemon Blue. Meanwhile the lucky 5 winners of the SplatShine print giveaway will be selected on this coming Monday! We will select 5 Patron's and email them, asking which print they'd like to receive. Then we'll ship it to them! So look forward to those two giveaways.

That's all for now. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to email us at smashifiedart@gmail.com

~Omni