Rewards Update
Added 2019-08-03 00:56:11 +0000 UTCLet me start by saying thank you all for supporting me and helping me through some dire straits, I can't thank you enough for that. And for you newer Danger Noodles out there don't worry I'm not going back on my promises, just gonna tweak it so you have to tap me on the shoulder and tell me what you want instead of me sending 2 or 3 messages to get an idea what you want.
It's come to my attention that my rewards might be ... too much and could just be transferred to higher tiers.
- What do I mean by this?
Well looking at the math and the work towards the obligations takes a lotta time outta my schedule to focus on. Let's say for example; suddenly I have 4 World Serpents in one day at the end of the month. So that would mean I have to stop all production on adopts, comics and commissions and sketch stream requests to draw 4 thigh up full render lewds, 4 emotes, and 8 chibis.
That...is A LOT to do for only $20 bucks, and looking at my commission prices, $20 tiers buy $85 worth of content not to mention the monthly chibi rewards, sketch streams and the chance of their sketch being revamped to full art including background.
So that's another $75 with that on top of it.
That is alot and VERY time consuming. While chibi's are quick and easy, The WallPapers take a lotta time and are treated the same way I treat commissions and honestly I feel that making It a reward was a mistake. So it will be removed from the tier bundle until a new tier is made.
- What about us who are already in que for wallpapers, are you just not going to do them?!
I will do those wallpapers for those that have joined before this post was made, you came in before I made this conclusion, you shouldn't be denied what you paid for. However I will not be going outta my way to contact you for the details and wait for days without any reply back. If you want these rewards you'll have to contact me, either on patreon messaging, my twitter, or our private discord you've received in the thank you letter. If you don't care about getting these rewards I shouldn't stress about making sure you get them, that's your responsibility.
- That seems petty, why can't you contact me!?
Believe me, I have. only 4 people have actively contacted me for their rewards while the rest have left me hanging for 3 days.
I don't think its that hard to send a quick message with references and details about your character. Being that my to do list is getting larger and larger, I don't want to keep commissions or Comics on hold for someone whose being rather apathetic to the whole thing.
- What are the other changes?
First let's start from the lowest to highest.
Basilisk tier
Access to nsfw content early and exclusive access to nsfw comics is good enough for $5, there's no need for a commission discount for this tier.
Wyrm tier
As stated wallpapers as a reward will be removed and emotes will be replaced with chibis.
sketch stream accessibility will remain however the %10 discount will not.
World Serpent tier
%10 discount will be applied here
Monthly chibis will be drawn UPON REQUEST: A contact must be made to receive this benefit, if you don't contact me within the whole month, that chibi is lost,
chibis don't stack over time.
1 chibi per month.
also vote bonus is being removed, sense I don't do polls as often and I can't tell who voted for what.
- Will there be a new tier added?
Probably when Patreon invents a "apply to all high tiers" button, for you that have been getting emails about changed post statuses I wanna apologize. I had no idea that it just blocked you from viewing exclusives and I still wanna try to fix that but most of those that were blocked at now available to the public. If I do make a tier higher than $20 it's of course gonna be a $30 and will be given the emote along with sketch rendering priority: meaning if they join a sketch stream their piece will be the first to be rendered out, no more guessing who gets it first or when it will be made, your pic will always be on the top of the que.
Ok I think that covers everything, If you have any questions feel free to message me or comment below for more detail if something wasn't clear.
More Importantly do not see this as me being greedy or selfish It's just very time consuming and very exhausting to keep up with so many request at once, Putting things on hold for long periods of time doesn't really help anyone.
I wanna make more comics and animations down the line and commissions and adopts are gonna really help me stay afloat sense patreon takes a cut outta all monthly proceeds. I'm just trying to do what I can to keep my head above water without tying my hands up in the process. I hope you understand that time is a very important to getting this work out, and having put into the right things will help me out in the long run, not just in the content but also my own mental health.
Thank you all sincerely from the bottom of my heart, Patreon has made my life so much easier and helped my family payoff debts, medical bills and insurance fee I could barely get rid of from my old job. This is still very risky but I'm just happy that it's possible and I can finally grow my craft and improve thanks to you.
~Take care.
Comments
Yeah, all the effort I'm gonna be putting in the sketch stream remasters. They're basically commission level quality for as low 10 bucks so that's more than enough of an incentive. Thank you for having my back kimba, seeing this thing does get stressful, and the exit surveys don't really help much cause I feel like theres something I doing wrong. But this is still the most patrons I've gotten so far. I gotta stay optimistic even if everyone of jumping ship for some reason.
Damian Vertigo
2019-08-05 12:08:42 +0000 UTCThe wallpaper stuff made a lot more sense back when things felt more small and private. But you grow as an artist and your Patreon grows along with it, I understand how the reward being chibis are the way to go (ANd hot dang are they so cute!) I hope that things grow more and more for you, since I've seen you improve so much over the years,and with the amount of people ya meet, new mutuals and junk, I know you'll surely have everyone calling ya NUMBER ONE DAD
Kimba
2019-08-03 05:02:32 +0000 UTC