Big Ol' Patreon Changes for the REST OF TIME
Added 2020-08-03 21:25:15 +0000 UTCGreetings, good morning, and overall, hello,
As some of you are probably aware I've been considering alternatives to Patreon for a while - to be frank, Patreon are, when compared to other platforms, massively unfair on supporters who are going out of their way to be generous and support a creator but are met with fees, sales tax, and currency conversion costs twice over.
On top of this, the page itself has always been a strange compromise for a channel that doesn't exactly gate off its primary content. Now don't get me wrong, I believe that Patreon has been integral to the survival of the channel, and I owe the platform massive thanks for helping get to where we are today, but I don't believe I would be understating it if I said they definitely earned a fair bit out of essentially hosting a one-page website.
I'm not an artist, I don't offer tier based commissions, nor do I gate my content off behind a paywall. Nor am I a musician, a designer, or anyone who Patreon is really aimed at. This platform, for those individuals, is invaluable - for someone who uses it as a supplement to combat YouTube's madness, it's quite an expensive middle ground for the supporter, and for me.
My issue with patreon is that people want to support the channel, they donate and it includes currency conversion fees into $, local sales tax as of last month, and a Patreon fee. When I get paid at the beginning of the next month, that money is then converted back into my local currency - Paypal have double dipped, local government took a slice, and Patreon took a slice, and of course all of this taxable for me as well, all for something that is essentially free to access on a separate platform anyway.
And it doesn't sit right with me that the supporters of my content should have to shell out more to completely unaffiliated third parties for the privilege of supporting content they enjoy?
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As a backup thing for the many creations, videos, and other methods I have linking over to this page, the $3 will remain. This is also to offer a way for those who wish to remain on this platform. I also want to keep this page in case of an unforeseen issue, or perhaps if Patreon make some changes that are enough to lure me back!
I will also do some final behind the scenes patreon videos as a final way to give something back to those of you who supported things here!
I fully understand if you don't want to follow me over to a new platform, just know that your support was invaluable either way and the channel wouldn't be here still without you, so thank you. For those of you interested in where we're heading to, keep reading!
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Whilst this page will remain open, it will no longer be my primary junction of support due to the many hands in the honey pot, instead we will be moving over to the much more straightforward website Ko-Fi.
For those of you who haven't heard of this before, it is a very simple website that I pay a very, very, very reasonable yearly subscription to, and they host a page, that's it. No fees, no middle man, no invisible payments - if someone wants to send me £30 then I receive £30. Monthly subs are a thing and we will have the same tiers as what we have here.
Not only is this fair to the people who want to support the channel, but the whole process is much simpler and actually in my local currency!
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Quick Recap:
- Stinky Patreon charge a lot to supporters and makes me angery
- New platform is Ko-fi, much simpler but no fees, taxes, everyone saves money etc
- Patreon page will remain the same until next months billing cycle
- At the start of next month Patreon page will be only the $3 tier to keep it open and keep all the stuff I posted here alive and well
Thank you all for your support here over the past couple of years, I hope to see you all at the new platform!
Your nice friend and probably the coolest content creator in the whole world,
Roll1D2Games
Mr Streamer
Sam
