Update and Payment Changes... Maybe? 20th Oct '24
Added 2024-10-20 13:50:41 +0000 UTCI'll start with the payment changes, although they come with a maybe? as I'm not sure what they actually are. Patreon is changing how they charge (I think the excuse they're using is it's a requirement to be on Apple App, or something). I'd like to be more precise on this, but I've been too busy working on Temptacia and trying to hit other story deadlines to have a chance to dig into it more thoroughly.
If I do get a chance, I'll try and find out more.
As far as I know, Patreon is changing something on the payments and it's happening from November. Rather than setting a flat fee and varying their cut, I think they're doing something odd like passing the charge onto the patron. I'm not sure I like this. I'd prefer the patron was just charged whatever the tier value is ($1, $5, etc) and the creator got what was left after Patreon took their cut.
If anyone knows exactly what the change is and how it will affect patrons, please post below.
I don't want people paying more than they thought they'd be paying, so I thought I'd drop an advance warning before Patreon charges for monthly subs at the start of November. If you do find the changes unacceptable, I do have a backup account on SubscribeStar where I mirror all content from here.
With that out of the way, lets move onto what I got up to last week.
It was a slightly slower week. There's a minor gastric flu-bug type thing floating around so I wasn't quite at 100%. Thankfully, it didn't slow me down that much.
Temptacia's 1st draft is pretty much done. I have a variant of her regular sex scene to write, where the player falls asleep and she drains him in his dreams, but that will likely be adapted from her regular sex scene. Apart from that, pretty much everything is written.
As for typing up, her core is typed up, her paizuri scene is typed up, her anal scene is typed up aside from the Bad End(s), and I'm about halfway through her footjob, sex, and oral scenes. At this point, unless anything untoward comes up, I'm well on course to having her implemented by the end of October.
My original plan was to switch to the Nicole short story for the next collection. There has been a change of plan here.
The ideas and mechanics for The Trapperess have dropped neatly into place. She is the fifth faction mini-boss. She's a succubus from the Huntress Lodge that specialises in creating sex traps to capture humans for the hunts. She's using a basement area of the House to try out new traps and her scenario will have the player running a gauntlet of them (six in total, roughly).
While I was out on Friday I managed to find a couple of spare hours to write the intro and start of her scenario. By starting her early, I'm hoping to avoid the delayed release problems I had with Rwberia and Temptacia, and get back to a regular monthly release schedule again.
Thanks for the support and interest!
- manyeyedhydra
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Hopefully, that means there shouldn't be too much disruption. I only offer the per month billing option at the moment, so there might not be too much change. My main concern is people don't see unexpected increases. That does help. Thanks!
Many-Eyed Hydra
2024-10-21 11:33:47 +0000 UTCHope that helps.
BrattyB
2024-10-20 16:53:02 +0000 UTCFrom jukeboxemcsa: I'm putting this in a separate post, as well as mentioning it in my weekly post, because I don't want anyone to miss it because it does affect billing going forward. As you may already know, Patreon and Apple have reached something of an impasse in their negotiations regarding the way Patreon processes memberships and payments - the details are as tedious as they are obnoxious, but basically Apple wants a cut of everything that involves money on their phone even though the Patreon app is really just intended as a way of accessing content. The long and short of it is, Patreon is bowing to the inevitable and making some changes to their subscription model to placate Apple. This means two things. One, if you are subscribing to any Patreon, anywhere, ever, do it through their website and not through the app if you use Apple products. Apple will take a 30% cut of revenues if it's done through their app and they don't need any more money. But two, Apple refuses to deal with the "per post" payment model, so everything on Patreon is switching to the "per month" billing subscription, meaning that starting November 1st you'll be billed monthly instead of weekly. This shouldn't change things too much - Patreon did the math and said that the base tier should become $5 per month and the Early Bird tier should become $10 per month, with the Suggestions Wanted tier becoming (you guessed it) $15 per month. I may revisit those later, but for now that's what you'll be looking at being charged beginning November 1st, so if you want to adjust your pledge accordingly you've got 11 days to do it. Thank you for your patience as I negotiate this change, and I always appreciate everything you do to support me.
BrattyB
2024-10-20 15:22:23 +0000 UTC
