altseason
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[Discussion] Update to the tiers and rewards
🕑 Added 2020-09-16 16:15:37 +0000 UTCHey there, Altseason here.
I have been thought about my tiers and rewards are not reflected good enough of what I'm capable of lately.
The reason of changing things up is because of my life schedule and work that I have to handle off of my main job. My main job is a storyboard artist at Igloo Studio, work 5 days a week 9 am-6 pm. When I came home, I have to work on freelance stuffs (about 1-2 hours). Then I need to rest or else my sanity will be wither fast.
On weekends, Saturday is a day-off for me and my bf. I don't work on any stuffs (personal or freelance) and Sunday is now my only work period on This Patreon. (on Big Little Cat comic) The hours of work depends on if whether I got something interrupting (family sudden plan, some important event that occur) but I got time to work around 2-4 hours.
For this circumstances, my work on this patreon and twitter has slow down quite a lot (compare to before I got a job). So I wanna first apologize to whoever are waiting for my work to get done slowly and thank you for your patience. I really appreciate it and want to make your pledge count as much as possible.
So I want to propose about my change plan and I want your feedback on how can I change it up to meet both middle ground for you guys and me too.
For how I see, the most popular tiers is 5$ because I update the comic on this tier and up.
So I left the 1$ tiers to those who want to just tip me or support me. That's actually my take on the first tiers for a while. Maybe I need to specific on that point in the description.
I would keep the 5$ tiers mainly on releasing my contents that is exclusive to my patrons only. Something like comic or small exclusive reward would be post here. (and some of it will eventually release outside or another form of it.
Finally the 10$, originally I've planned to release the work or idea that would not be release soon, something that I just want to explore secretly or something I'm not confident of sharing it to the public yet. and the commentary on my work is something I thought would be suitable for the most exclusive patron that would want to know my workflow or way of thinking. But as you can see, I rarely done these things.
My thought on changing the 10$ tiers that I have come up with is something around
1) Changing the amount, maybe lower or higher. But the point is that I don't have enough contents to make the adjustment of the amount relevant. Lower to 8$ means I would have to have another exclusives to share but not for the 5$. Higher to around 15$ means I need to make the limit of the patrons (1-2 peoples) so that I can give them more exclusive stuffs like personal commission or something else that would suit the amount.
2) Remove it or keep it for the well-suited supporters. I think that remove is a bit irrational because some of the work that is worth 10$ is still there but not enough people could see it. The more suitable option for me is to Keep the tiers as it is but remove all the reward and just be like a founders pack or something, maybe with an achievement, or personal avatars drawn? I don't know. Maybe you can help me on the ideas.
So what do you guys think? Please let me know and help me grow this community.
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Comments
Altseason
Thank you for your comment. I should maybe adjust one or two rewards to be more realistic for me. :D
José Alberto Loyo
I’ve been a patreon of yours for very little time, so I don’t particularly mind if you decide to change the tiers, although if you feel that this patreon Is currently draining you or asking too much of you, perhaps you should adapt not only the prices but also the rewards to something more realistic that doesn’t leave you hanging
Altseason
My thought that bring up this subject is because I work in this patreon page alone and quite sometime it gave me worries when you don't know whether your work is good or bad because I can't ask anybody and rarely people wanna comment on the subject. So I really appreciate you guys for commenting.
Altseason
Thanks for the comment. I felt worried that if I left the content too little, I would give you guys a disservice. Tbh I don't know how much or little I have to do in this situation. But still, thanks. :)
TrianglesRaR
Honestly I don't particularly mind the current way things are. I understand it can be tough to make time for things like this and don't mind the content drought too much. If I had to choose I would probs suggest lowering to $8 tier instead since putting it higher would really limit the amount of people that may acquire the higher tier.
Altseason
Thank you so much for the comment. <3 Providing PSD is another interesting option which I never explore, thought of it as an after thought which I don't know if someone would interest in it. Let me know if I'm wrong though, not experiencing enough on that subject.
Nekoitoi
I think maybe lowering the tier to $8 a month might be the best course of action for it. As it stands, the $10 tier at least for this year has been rarely used. Only being used twice this year, once in January and twice in May. Save for that, it doesn't appear to be used as often. Lowering it could be beneficial, as you wouldn't have to worry as much about providing more exclusive artwork for pledges $15. As well, able to get more people who have been on edge about leaping from a $5 to a $10 pledge to pledge to a $8 pledge in place. As for content, You could provide more commentary for how certain work is done be it showing wips or text below a piece on how did so. As well, another incentive could be getting PSD's of pages or commissions you may have done during the month as an additional reward for people of this pledge.
