Published: April 30th 2021, 12:10:40 am
Hello! You've been getting barraged by text posts this week, I do apologize. This will replace "changes to the patreon" posts for the time being.
As the option of freelance/independence looms closer to being the option I choose for my career, I would need to make some changes to the Patreon to make it work. Thus, I want to figure out what people feel I'm doing well and not doing so well with so I can plan accordingly for a relaunch. Please be honest with your feedback - if you're having a problem with navigation or what I make or anything else for that matter, I really need to know. I'm not going to discard any feedback for sounding "too mean".
One thing I know for sure is that I think we need to steer back into more "vanilla" territory. The end of March/start of April had a period where the ONLY thing I uploaded was transformation related, which is incredibly excessive.
I do also have in my exit notes here that someone felt dissatisfied with the lack of on-model content of Agent 8, so straight away I know there's a demand for that type of content. I do also want to return to doing more stuff with Shantae since it's been a while, and in fact I have a render-set ready PLUS I'm working on a solo loop animation of her. I also got some porkyman models recently, so there's that too!
I have also considered doing more MHA stuff again; I did some back in early 2019 and then stopped. My main concern is I don't want to be seen as encroaching on GreatM8's field (even though we're good friends), but given the risks of "big-N" content I do need something else to work on from time to time. If there's a demand for it I will go for it. If you can think of any other characters you'd like me to work with, let me know.
For patron perks, I can tell you what will get changed right now: regardless of whether I go freelance or not next month, your early access window as a patron is going to being extended. This also means I will be rescheduling how releases work: Early access happens on a Friday, with the public release happening a week later on Saturday. That gives you just under 8 days compared to the 4 or so days you have now to enjoy early access to content. That also means I have time to make adjustments if need be, and overall is a win-win deal.
There are also some hypothetical ideas: I have seen people leave feedback about finding it hard to access content on Patreon, so I am considering maybe opening a Discord server. This would start out as being exclusively for patrons to hang out, talk about general stuff or games or even their own work, and get access to my content. This would also be pretty beneficial for animations in particular, since I don't think Patreon has a dedicated video uploader.
As I previously mentioned about a week ago, I am considering moving the benefits from the $1 tier up to a $2 tier, with $1 just being a tip-jar tier or possibly getting you a name-tag on Discord if I do make a server. I will let you know if I'm about to make this change and I'll do so before charge upfront gets implemented, which is something I'm also considering. I also created a $50 tier. No perks right now. Hypothetical tiers could include a $30-40 tier with a commission discount and 1 free one-character commission. Not sure yet.
You can leave your comments below, but I also created two strawpolls which I'll post on twitter later on.
What, if anything, would make you consider being a patron? (kind of redundant here but I might as well post it anyway)
https://www.strawpoll.me/45207986
What content would you like to see more of in general?