LordArioch
patreon
Retiring the $1 Tier
🕑 Added 2019-11-07 14:54:46 +0000 UTCHello everyone,
A bit of serious business today. I will shortly be implementing a change to the pledge tiers - removing the $1 option. If you also support Architect, who has announced he is doing the same, you might already know why, but for those of you who don’t, I’ll explain why it isn’t a great option for us.
The problem with the $1 tier is that after you take out both payment processing fees, and Patreon’s fees, I only get around 30 cents. Patreon themselves suggest that you don’t have a $1 tier because of this (they suggest the lowest should be $3). For every 100 pledges I have at the $1 level, I only get about $30, the equivalent of around 7-8 pledges at the $5 level. With 70% of the pledge being eaten up, this makes it a very inefficient pledge, and that is why we have decided to remove it.
Don’t worry - those of you who are currently pledging $1 will stay at that level for as long as you want to remain a patron, with the same benefits. We are simply unpublishing the tier, which means no new patrons will be able to pledge at that level. After a discussion with other members of staff, who believed it might be best to start at the $5 build level, I still wanted to offer something for those who wanted to pledge less so we will be taking Patreon’s advice and implementing a new lowest tier of $3, which will have the current $1 benefits.
I apologize for the inconvenience, but as in all businesses, things change and adjustments have to be made. As always I appreciate all the support you guys give me, I couldn’t make the game without it.
Comments
Appreciate the clarification updated my sub
Kobold Lad
Makes sense, when my financial situation gets better I'll up my sub.
squarenuts
So, no $3.50 monster tier? 😉 https://youtu.be/9cn7xfBpZ3M
Urvutihlavu
As an 1$ tier sub, with quaterly jump to 25$ so I can get new content I totally understand. I will resub to 3$.
Lord Arioch
I just checked what Arch said, and I don't really have anything to add to that I'm afraid.
It is good that you guys have brought this up. We need to make sure that most of the money pledged goes where intended, one way or other. Do have an idea where that 70c goes? Speaking to Architect about this, he was able to tell that it used to be better and the fees have changed recently, but he wasn't able to go into detail on what has changed. Based on this page (https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027674431-How-does-Patreon-calculate-fees-for-creators- ) Patreon and payment processor should take at most 28c out of a $1 pledge. I don't know if it is current information, but there is nothing to state it wouldn't be. Ideally of course Patreon would exist exactly to make it easy for a large number of people to support many creators with small steady streams of currency and would enable that by making payment processing logistics easy. It is sad to see it failing at it.
