Important information's to my supporters

Dear all

I'm very sorry to inform you about some changes that will happen here at Patreon.

First of all - all Mac users need to pay a fee of 30% to Apple if they sign up through their iOS store. If you're a Mac user - from November 1st - you can't sign up through iOS. Please sign up at the Patreon website.

As you all know - I can't make these games without your support. I spend days and nights making the best game ever. In order to do that your support is crucial.

Patreon will now force me to change subscription methods from calendar month to 30 days subscription too! These changes will take place November 2025 as I have postponed it until next year.

From your point of view it might make sense, but for my recurring supporters and me - it will be a very bad solution.

As you know - I have almost every single month during the last 5 years made a new release.

As an audience you have signed up and got your copy for that month or you have just been a recurring supporter that got your copy when it was released.

It's not a secret that 40 % of you cancel your membership when you have got your copy and sign up again when a new episode is released. Today I have absolutely no issues with that but in future it will not work.

Let me make an example:

I make a release on the 2nd day of every month.

A Gold member signs up the 3rd day in a month - Voila! - he'll get 2 episodes for 1 month membership whereas the recurring Gold member will get 1 episode. Fair? - in my opinion ...no!

Okay I could just postpone the release date for every month so I can avoid that? Of course I can but that will not be fair to my recurring supporters as they will quickly pay for subscriptions without getting anything.

I have ongoing discussions with Patreon right now and really hope that it will be solved in a good way. Otherwise I'll be forced to move to another platform by November 2025.

Cheers and thank you for your support. Without you - these games wouldn't exist.

Have a great day out there

Bob

email from Patreon

Hey,

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Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.

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You're currently on a first-of-the-month billing model, but Apple's in-app purchase system only supports subscription billing. Apple has made clear that if creators on Patreon continue to use unsupported billing models or disable transactions in the iOS app, we will be at risk of having the entire app removed from their App Store.

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So, starting in November, your fans in the iOS app won't be able to purchase subscriptions to your membership until you switch to subscription billing. And, as a result of Apple's mandates and in order to make sure that you can continue getting new members in the iOS app, we've started a 16-month-long migration process to bring all creators onto subscription billing by November 2025. This means that your current billing model will be discontinued in November 2025.

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We want to give you all of the tools and information you need to navigate this change in the least disruptive way possible.

To help you keep growing across all platforms, we're going to automatically switch you over to subscription billing in November 2024.

Once you're on subscription billing, you can control how Apple's fee is applied. You can either maintain your earnings by setting a higher price for new memberships purchased in the iOS app (default) or absorb the App Store fee yourself. Remember: the Apple fee only applies to new memberships purchased in the iOS app.

You can delay the migration to subscription billing by choosing to in your settings. The deadline to delay the migration to subscription billing is November 1, 2024.

If you delay, you'll be able to stay on your current billing model until November 2025, but Apple's mandate still applies. Come November 2024, your fans won't be able to purchase memberships in the iOS app until you switch to subscription billing.

We want to do absolutely everything we can to make sure that these changes are as smooth as possible for you, your fans, and your business. We didn't choose this path, but we're focusing our resources on making subscription billing an even better experience for creators and fans. This will take time and we're committed to making it happen for every creator. In the coming months, expect to hear more from us as we bring together communities of creators on first-of-the-month billing to talk about migration tips, keep you up-to-date with reminders and notifications, and share more resources to support you through the billing model change. We'll be in touch soon.

- The Patreon team