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Patreon Changes (Requesting suggestions)
🕑 Added 2017-06-17 01:06:01 +0000 UTC Hey everyone!With the Golden Week comic over, a lot of things here have become obsolete, so I'm going to change them.
The biggest change of all should be changing the campaign from a weekly to a monthly one.
The weekly thing was good for managing content and ensuring that no one would get charged for weeks in which there was no new pages (the vacation weeks and those weeks in which I was not able to update the comic). I thought about starting a monthly campaign to ensure a cheaper minimal pledge for Patrons (2$/month instead of 4$/month).
I'll focus on keep doing comics, with a 'one page per week' schedule, but upon reaching higher milestone, I'll start posting pages with a higher frequency.
I also plan on posting my random sketches and commissions here, but with a HQ version exclusive to Patrons. I'll also reduce the early access period to two weeks.
Doing Monthly (or bi-weekly) art streams, with Patrons being able to vote/suggest on themes and potentially being featured in these sketches.
I'll create two new tiers, one for patrons to be able to vote and suggest on new short comic and/or pin-up ideas and another tier in which patrons can be be featured in a sketch following the suggested theme.
Create a Discord channel to gather everyone who'd like to discuss the new content in real time and whatnot or even have private story-writing, visual narrative and drawing lessons.
This would be a more experimental reward, gathering all paying patrons in the discord channel and put the private lessons under a 40$ or 50$ tier, if people even show interest in it.
So, the new tiers should be:
2$ tier, which grants access to the HQ illustrations, sketches and WIPs and a Thank you note in a monthly post.
5$ tier, which grants access the HQ comic pages 2 weeks earlier than the low quality public release
10$ tier, which grants access to voting & suggesting on themes and pin-ups and have a "suggested by:_____" in it.
And the 20$ tier, which grants the chance to be featured in a sketch on streams (depends on availability and amount of patrons in this tier)
All these changes aren't final, and I'll experiment with them for a while and adjust both my schedule and my Patreon campaign accordingly as it goes.
So, what do you guys think? These new changes feels fair? What are your general thoughts on the whole thing?
I hope to hear from you all soon and in the meanwhile, stay AWESOME!
Comments
Douglas Kim
Hey, thanks for your input! :D The hard copies of TGW should be available later this year from Rabbit Valley comics if everything goes right c:
(I don't know why my comments keep disappearing) changes feel fair! I'm personally only really interested in early access to pages, mostly indifferent to sketches/streams etc, but I know others dig that stuff, so GO for it! Monthly fee makes more sense to me than weekly, I'll probably bump up to $5 tier, have $10/month budgeted for artists, split between you and one other (wish it could be more!) I'm super glad to hear more comics will be coming, my main thing is, really looking forward to seeing a hard copy of TGW for sale!
