YandereDev
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Switching to "Charge Up Front" from now on
🕑 Added 2018-08-03 01:02:24 +0000 UTC For a long time, Patreon only had one payment system: when you pledged money to someone on Patreon, you weren't charged any money until the first day of the next month. Since the beginning of Patreon's history, there were people who exploited this system; they pledged money, got the rewards, then cancelled their pledge before the first day of the next month so that they wouldn't have to lose any money.Creators on Patreon were tired of being ripped off by people who used this strategy to get rewards without spending money, so they asked Patreon for the option to charge people up front, instead of waiting for the first day of the next month. Earlier this year, Patreon finally made this an option.
Ever since I first began using Patreon, way back in 2014, there have been people who figured out a devious way to sabotage me; they pledged large amounts of money to my Patreon to create the impression that I was raking in loads of money, then they canceled their pledges before the first day of the next month, so that I wouldn't get any of their money. Then they immediately re-instated their pledges, creating the illusion that I was financially stable and didn't need any further support.
For a long time, it wasn't really an issue, since only about 10% of the pledges were fraudulent, and I was still meeting my financial goals. However, recently, a much larger percentage of pledges have been fraudulent, creating a very inflated and inaccurate number on my Patreon page. I'm switching to the Charge Up Front option so that nobody can use the "revoke pledge before the first day of the next month" ripoff strategy anymore. This won't affect any of you existing Patrons; it just prevents people from ripping me off from this point forward.
Marked as Adult Content
As long as I'm writing a post, I might as well mention something. In June, Patreon marked my page as "adult content", which makes it impossible to view the page unless you're logged in and have agreed to view adult content. Their reasoning for doing this was because some of my posts contain "graphic violence". I've been using Patreon since August 2014, and the people who operate Patreon never had a problem with my page until June 2018. It's bizarre that Patreon was fine with me all this time, then changed their mind after 46 months...but, oh well. As long as I use Patreon's site, I have to respect whatever decision they make, no matter how arbitrary it feels.
Lack of Recent Posts
I haven't made a post to Patreon or YouTube in over a month, but please don't make the mistake of thinking that this means I haven't been working on the game! I updated the game 6 times over the course of July; I just don't post to Patreon unless I have a new YouTube video to share, and I'm not ready to create a video about my recent progress yet.
You can see everything I've been working on at my blog, https://yanderedev.wordpress.com - I'm hoping to release a big, significant update later this month!
Thank you for following the development of Yandere Simulator!
Comments
YandereDev
First of all, thanks for your support! I'm not on any other crowd-funding platforms, and I haven't been planning on doing so. If you're still interested in supporting me, I suppose you have the option of subscribing to my channel on Twitch, which is $5 per month. I guess it's also an option to simply send me $12 on PayPal once a year if you'd like to maintain $1-per-month support.
Do you have any alternative funding platforms set up? I'm dumping Patreon but I don't want to stop donating towards Yandere Simulator.
Offshore - Adult Games Developer
Keep up, my friend!
Sergey
I think "adult content" marking is because of moving to UK too.
Noxifer
Correct. It charges you when you pledge, and from there-on at the start of each month. (So don't pledge on the last day of the month unless you're *really* supportive :p Or even the first, if you're in the wrong time zone -- I did that once, and it charged me twice the same month because I pledged two hours before the server shift to the next month.)
The “Charge up front” feature is only for the first pledge, correct?
Mrs Emma JK
Sorry people have taken advantage of this reward system to your detriment - there is no excuse for not putting their money where their mouths are, tbh x From what I have heaed, it seems the change of Patreon over to the UK is causing people to have differences due to exchange rates. Might be worthwhile checking it out x Have a fantastic day xxx
YandereDev
Interesting. I hope that you're right!
Copperskull
Hey YanDev, you're not the only creator I pledge to, and I've been hearing from others that Patreon's recent bank change has caused a lot of declined charges. My bank called me and I had to approve the charge; if I didn't answer, they were going to decline it. Apparently, bounced payments can remove accounts from pledge lists, so other creators' numbers took a hit as well. I'm sure at least some small part of your losses yesterday were from people that intended to pay. I'm sure your numbers will have some resurgence.
BinaryCodex
What a terrible thing for people to do. I think the switch is a good idea. Sorry about the content label. That's tough. Keep up the good work.
Sen Nemesis
Sorry to here about those incidents, YandereDev. But I'm happy that you're taking steps to protect yourself and your content.
