The Next Arena Match + Thoughts (Patreon)
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Two things I want to cover, and they're related to each other.
The next match is Proteah vs Rizl! An exciting match up I think, and we'll get some good fun out of it. It's already been fully paid for so we're good to get started on the pre match hype stuff fairly soon.
But it leads to my other thing, and I don't really have an answer. As you guys know Arena is funded by the people who own MHFAP! OCs, and when you add in colorist fees and the time it takes me to draw them, I don't make all that much from them. So that makes funding main character matches tricky. Since I can't just offer to draw my girls, or specifically Hero, for free as much as I'd like to.
However this is troubling me as it leads to almost all of the matches being yuri, which while I enjoy it, is a bit off brand. I would like for matches in the future to be trading off between Hero matches and yuri matches, but I have no way to make that happen since the owners have to pay Hero's half of the match, which adds up to a lot.
I don't wanna alienate anyone or make them think I'm purposefully focused so much on yuri for Arena on purpose. I just don't have a solution for doing more Hero matches easily that wouldn't come at a drastic loss of money on my side of things, which I'm already not doing too great on.
If you have any ideas feel free to let me know, but I'm not sure what all can be said lol.