About video content & pricing (Patreon)

如果你很忙，可以直接看下面的中文摘要（Short on time? Read the Chinese summary below.）

【摘要】lgkong 做了一个 120 秒的视频，现在订阅任意付费档位即可观看。由于硬件成本上涨，我们在考虑两个方案：A. 单独开设 5 美元/月的视频档位（包含之后发布的所有这类观赏性视频，不含图像内容）；B. 在确认视频产能后提高档位价格「Jenminchi / lgkong 档位各 +2 美元、合集档位 +3 美元」。投票中 C 表示两者都可以，D 表示都不需要，E 表示还不确定，F 供目前还不是付费会员的朋友选择。目前仍在试验阶段，尚未开始调整。即使涨价，现有会员目前支付的价格不会变。欢迎在下方投票，也欢迎在评论区留言或私信我们。

Hey everyone!

lgkong and I have been discussing a plan. He's put together a 120-second video — you can watch it right now with any paid tier — and with our costs going up, we're hoping to increase our income. 3D rendering is hardware-intensive, and GPU and memory prices have risen sharply recently, so keeping our equipment up to date has become considerably more expensive. That's why we'd like to try producing this kind of "viewing" video — to attract new supporters and keep improving what we offer.

We currently have two options:

Option A — Set up a separate video tier ($5/month, includes every "viewing" video we release from now on)

Please note: this tier does not include image content. Unfortunately, Patreon only allows a patron to hold one tier at a time, so if you subscribed to the video tier, you wouldn't be able to subscribe to an image tier at the same time.

Option B — Raise the tier prices once we're confident about video output

Once we've confirmed that we can keep releasing videos, even at a lower frequency, we would raise the tier prices. The current plan is +$2 for each of our personal tiers (Jenminchi / lgkong) and +$3 for our combined tier. The main reason is the rising hardware costs mentioned above — this adjustment is what would let us keep improving the quality and pace of our work. Everything else stays the same: our individual videos and our combined content will still be distributed across the tiers exactly as before.

This is still experimental, so the price change won't happen right away — it could take weeks, or even months, before we know whether we can sustain this output. Until any change takes effect, if we do release a video, you'll still be able to watch it with any tier you're subscribed to.

If our tier prices do go up later, the amount you currently pay stays the same. Existing members keep the rate they signed up at; any new pricing would only apply to new subscribers.

Thank you for your support and understanding — it's what keeps us making things.

This poll is open to everyone, paying member or not, and it's only meant to show us what you'd prefer — it isn't a final decision. We'll make the call based on whether we can sustain the video output.

If you have any other suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below or send us a message.

If you're not a paying member yet, please pick the option you'd prefer and mention in the comments that you're not currently a patron — it helps us read the results. Or choose F if a video tier is the thing that would bring you in.