Charge Upfront
Added 2016-07-08 07:55:28 +0000 UTCA big problem that content creators have had with Patreon since
its inception is the ability to subscribe to a monthly campaign and then remove
that subscription before being charged on the first of the month. This enabled
a kind of fake support, sometimes even pushing the amount pledged $50 higher,
only to never actually contribute.
Whilst not a huge issue in and of itself, it gave less
incentive for others to support a monthly campaign and devalued what they DID
contribute, by making it such that others received the same stuff for free.
Patreon’s just come out with Charge Upfront. This means NO
new changes to existing patrons. What it does mean is that new patrons
attempting to pledge will be charged up front for their first month, and will
not be able to access patreon exclusive content without having actually become
a patron, if that makes sense. It seems like great news all around and I’m glad
to see it finally active!
I’d love to see you shoot me your thoughts on the matter,
though.
Also, I’ll be uploading the next part of FOBoJ tonight, so
looking forward to that ^u^
Comments
I encourage all artists to make this change. It is only fair and it makes sense.
NackV
2016-07-08 08:21:07 +0000 UTCI'm a big fan of the change :D It seemed kind of weird that it didn't always work that way, but I'm sure there's a lot of externalities I don't know about :p
No1
2016-07-08 08:06:25 +0000 UTC
