Suede Of The Union: Reward adjustments and upcoming promotions

I just became a patron. I don't mind waiting for art or your videos. You guys work hard so it is no biggie. :)

SuperBunnyBun

How much do I need to donate to replace the flying purple kitty that used to follow you around?

Gelli Elfson

After Jess finally finishes all the current requests, will they hopefully resume one day?

So I signed up a few days ago (between the 9th and 17th) do I still get art? or no? I don't really mind either way, but would like to know.

edmg7

Top Patrons get to partake in a tabletop RPG with Suede?

edmg7

You "couldn't" care less...yes I'm being a grammar nazi, I don't get how could care less became a thing...no I'm not anal-retentive, you all are!

I like the idea of episode requests that a few people have mentioned. I'm not sure how you would work it but there are so many episodes of Pokemon I think that a lot of people are interested in hearing your opinion on their favorite episode. You could do this with the movies too. I'm also interested in hearing your opinion on various Pokémon games...but I understand that reviewing those is more time consuming so you might not want to take requests on something like that or a let's play type thing. Another thought I've had is that I really liked it when you did that Pokémon Table Top RPG game over on The Loading Crew. Not sure how you would tie that into Patron but I'm just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what works.

Evan Bao

In terms of rewards, I think a co-sponsored review be a good idea especially since it would take forever to get to the later series that newer fans are not aware of. Perhaps the Pokémon Chronicles (but that would require more continuity stuff). That could be the new $20 tier given the time and effort. For $10 tier, I don't know for sure. Maybe a livestream of you editing the videos? Or maybe Professor Uncle Suede answering questions?

Evan Bao

So that's why $20 reward hasn't come. Understandable to say the least. Honestly, I choose the $20 to give Suede a little boost to the $1000 stretch mark. The artwork reward was a constellation prize. However, after looking into my bank account to determine strain of a Nintendo Switch Online fee, I was actually debating if I should downgrade $20 tier back to $10. However, I don't know what happens if you downgrade a tier before you got your reward, so I haven't done it yet. But now that you have explained your situation, I feel a bit more comfortable to downside (though not immediately if the new $20 reward is up my alley).

MysticSamurai1983

Makes me glad I signed up when I did then. Whew! *wipes away the sweat now*

Michael McKinney

Suede, only thing I can think of for replacement rewards is something like Linkara’s sponsored review...which you’ve sort of done.

Michael McKinney

Jess, I could care less if I received my art in a month or a year, your health is more important.

Why not have it so every week your $20 paterons get to ask you one question, and that question gets put in a metaphorical hat to be drawn at random and answered at the end of the episode? That way you can still thank the individual pateron, they get a chance to know you better, and the amount of work required to do it is significantly less than what you need to do now. Plus by making it random you don't have to worry about people missing out because the backlog gets too long, or people only having the chance to just ask one question for the entire time they've pledged.

Totally understandable. The list of Patrons at the end on an episods is so big and I can imagine the art for each one taking quite a while anyway... As an idea for a new reward... have you considered doing episode requests? While I totally understand your desire to do them in order, there may be some that people would love to see covered but are way back in the reaches of AG/DP/BW/XY.