Proposed change to tiers
Added 2019-06-19 12:51:27 +0000 UTCSo now I’ve been doing this a little while I’ve been thinking about how my tiers work.
The current system is that I work on various series which are tier specific, however I’ve found this a little constraining as, for example, sometimes I feel inspired to work on a certain thing but can’t because it would mean tiers are getting disproportionate amounts of work.
So I’d like to propose to you all a change to how my tiers will work, but I want to hear your thoughts.
I thought rather than working on exclusives, I would potentially open all series to all tiers - but release finished work on a percentage base depending on the pledge, with perks for higher tiers such as sketches and animations. I’ll outline my thinking below:
Futobasic - $3
Access to every third/fourth finished sequence
Futobeautiful - $5
Access to every other finished sequence
Sketches, animatics
Futofabulous - $10
Access to all sequences
Sketches, animatics
Fandoodles
Illustrations, one offs, sketch dumps
Voting in polls and community involvement
I intend to output a lot of work, and am always working on multiple projects concurrently, so there should be something going up every few days at least.
I am so grateful to each and every one of you for your support, and want to offer a variety of work to everyone whilst also enabling myself to earn enough money to create as much work as possible.
Please let me know your thoughts!
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Comments
Thank you for such strong feedback Travis I understand and will bear this in mind. Under my proposed system, lower tiers would effectively see more work and I would have more creative freedom. But if there is a strong negative reaction to it I will have to rethink.
futobara
2019-06-20 06:40:04 +0000 UTCI really don't like to say it in a public comment, but I'm not sure that I would continue to be a patron under this proposed change. I can't go up to the $10 tier, and I'm really not a fan of the idea of effectively paying for content which on my end is randomly distributed.
2019-06-20 01:10:43 +0000 UTCYou make some interesting points here, but I feel like most of my top tier patrons would go down to $5 if I did this and I would lose out quite a bit of income, which would mean I couldn’t afford to keep up the output I can currently maintain. Under the model I have suggested bottom and middle tiers will see much more than the model I started out with, which ended up reserving most of my output for the top tier because of exclusives etc.
futobara
2019-06-19 14:35:01 +0000 UTCHey Futo, just wanted to start off by saying welcome back and thanks for creating content again. I like the idea, but I think $5 is the most approachable price point for a lot of people and limiting those supporters to half your patreon-specific library might be undesirable for some. Based on models I've seen on other Patreons, I would consider eliminating the $3 tier (not sure how popular it is now), provide access to all finished sequences/sketches/animatics/illustrations/etc at the $5 level. For the $10 level, you can provide additional incentives through community involvement with polls, maybe provide 1-week to 2-week early access to your art, and access to your WIPs. If you want to provide an additional incentive maybe you could do a monthly raffle for a 3-stage commission at the $10 tier level, or you could offer discounts on commission prices. Again, love your work, so I hope I'm not coming off as ungrateful. Just wanted to provide some suggestions based on what I've seen on some of the other Patreons I've been subbed to previously :)
TheWizard01
2019-06-19 14:09:24 +0000 UTCSounds like a good idea to me, especially if you feel better about it.
EricTheBrown
2019-06-19 13:54:40 +0000 UTCI like your plan, which seems to give you creative freedom and also grants at least partial access to creative work, both completed and in-process. It's a dynamic tier schedule, which is less constraining for everyone involved.
TSquared
2019-06-19 13:50:52 +0000 UTC
