Zedrin
patreon
looking for thoughts on a potential page update
🕑 Added 2022-04-18 09:09:44 +0000 UTCI've been debating making a change to my page's roles to adjust the prices a bit.
There's two big factors for this:
For a while I had SFW and NSFW posts, but I stopped doing them in the interest of efficiency, but I'm starting to debate if maybe they'd be a good idea. Since I now handle a lot of versioning via say, the Mega archive, I don't have to make 4 posts every time I finish a piece (sfw, nsfw, source sfw, source nsfw, etc.). That said, despite paying the same amount, SFW subs don't get as much out of it, admittedly, and while there's not any expectation, I'd like to still make it feel a bit more apropos.
The other big reason, my pricing patterns don't really reflect a lot of similar and peer pages. The jumps between tiers always felt a bit large. (Most pages I've seen don't even offer perks to their $1-2 tier, as it's more meant to just be a tip jar.) It also causes complications with Subscribestar, which has per-sub fees rather than batch processing--a $2 pledge there earns significantly less than a $2 pledge here as a result.
Last time I asked for feedback, however, I had people panic-unsub thinking that they were gonna be charged more, so please read this note first.
I am not changing prices of existing roles at this time. This is purely for feedback. If I do change prices, current members will be grandfathered in at their current rate--meaning you will maintain your current role and pledge with the same benefits for as long as you're subscribed. E.g. if you're a $2 sub now, you'd have the same perks as a $3 sub in the proposed changes. These changes would only affect new patrons.
With that aside, the ideas I have:
$2 would be the baseline, and give SFW access to the page. NSFW posts wouldn't go through your feed. The archives would still work as normal so someone could get NSFW access through there, but it'd only be updated with new posts at the end of the month, as it is currently. SFW would be at most PG-13. I am debating whether or not I'd include polls here, as I don't want to make a separate NSFW and SFW poll each month.
$3 would be the new NSFW baseline, what the $2 is currently. This gives full access to posts when they're done, as usual.
$5 would be the SFW credit tier; namely the credits tier for longer Youtube videos. NSFW posts are hidden.
$6 would be the new NSFW credits tier, for when there's any larger animation (NSFW or SFW). Identical to the current $5 tier.
$9 would be a new source file role for SFW. This would have the same stipulations as the $2 sfw role with the archive, but the recent posts would exclude NSFW. Users could still access NSFW source files should they choose, but only at the end of the month.
$10 would be as it is now: all posts, + source file access at the end of the month.
$16 would be a new VIP tier, same as the current VIP tier, but with the NSFW posts hidden. Also includes discord color perks and the occasional VIP youtube video credits.
$20 would be as it is now: all access, VIP credits, custom Discord color, etc.
The thing is, this is a lot of roles, and I worry it might be too daunting or confusing for people when they pledge. Would condensing some of the roles be better? Are these changes even a good idea? Are there other suggestions or ideas? Any questions?
Comments
Kaus
I might not speak for much but I think your idea for the teirs would be a good idea. Mainly the thing you need to do is just show people the lines between SFW and NSFW tiers and the benefits within each tier. If you can do that I'm sure people can understand well enough.
