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Reward Pruning Part 2 - Thoughts on Initial Responses
🕑 Added 2019-09-08 07:32:03 +0000 UTCI thank everyone for your input on the previous post about this!
I definitely agree with the general consensus of condensing the $1, $3, $5, $7, and $10 tiers into the $5 tier. I think that's a good idea, and just make it very explicit that I don't regularly do loops or photosets, and I sometimes just post them all onto Twitter anyways - but when I do make them and Patreon them, then they'll be there for the $5 reward.
I'll keep the $2 tier as it is, I think it's fair for the content (just text) and frequency (once every 2 or 3 months ideally). And I definitely think the $15 tier is perfectly fine as it is.
I've long considered splitting the early access from "1080p early access" to "720p early access" and "1080p normal access." My only concern is where to put the splits, reward-wise. I feel like the early access is more important to most people than the 1080p, though I might be wrong.
Basically it's a matter of deciding which one gets to be $15, and where to put the other. If I put the more important one below (say $10), then I end up potentially losing over a thousand dollars a month (assuming all 211 $15 patrons move to $10). If I put the more important one above (say $20), then I end up potentially losing about three thousand a month (assuming all 211 $15 patrons say "fuck that" and just unpledge entirely).
Obviously the latter solution is worse, but the former is also raw because that's literally the vast majority of the production cost of the shorts as they are right now. That hit could literally be the difference between being able to make these videos and not.
Long story short is that I am sort of in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to tampering with the 1080p early access. If I play it right, then it could end up having no negative effect on the funding of these videos (a positive effect would be even better, but all I want is to avoid a negative effect). But if I play it wrong, I could literally plunge the entire endeavor straight into a six-foot hole.
I'm not a gambling man, and 50/50 are odds I'm just not willing to bet the future of my videos on.
I'd love to hear some thoughts on it. I also made this as a comment on the previous post, but decided to make it be its own post as well, so that everyone has a chance to see it.
Comments
Dark Rooster
I agree with JB
I guess I'm in the I don't got to have early access, just high res 1080p-4096p to use on my UHD Monitors andbig screen TVs.
Lord Aardvark
I remember I made a poll asking about this once, which people prefer more, early access or 1080p. Unfortunately I don't remember the results. Might be worth doing another poll about it, though!
Lord Aardvark
While you are correct that it is ironically more work (albeit not much; just export and upload again with the settings changed), the idea behind it is historically I only ever rendered out at 720p. The idea is to never degrade the content I provide for free. And since I always used to provide 720p, 720p remains the standard. The 1080p then is a bonus for people who choose to support me. I go above and beyond in rendering 1080p and downscaling to 720p, in order to reward those who go above and beyond in supporting me in my efforts when they have no obligation to do so.
I love your animations but I'd recommend dropping the price for 1080p unwatermarked access. It seems silly to me export at 1080p and downgrade for cheaper tiers, especially since the animations are the main product. That means it's actually more work to make the 720p version, unless there's something I'm missing about exporting animations. If people are handing you $5+ a month, why shaft them by deliberately creating a lower-grade version of the same thing?
Blue-LeadersQ
Awesome Work πππΈππππππ€ππ
Luke Mofford
As a 1080p Early Access patron, originally I pledged to this tier because I couldnβt wait the extra 5 days for Blue Star Episode 1, and while this is still true, more important to me now is the 1080p. If you move Early Access down a tier, Iβd stay where I am, but if you moved 1080p up a tier Iβd strongly consider following it
