Mr Streamer's Sanity Saving Plan

Friends, Patrons, and kombatants of this fine Mortal Kombat,

I'm not going to beat around the bush here - times are tough right now, I fully expect people to cancel their subscriptions and prepare for difficulties coming up.

To still try and help out in what small way I can, I am going to make the VIP window more flexible for as long as the Quarantine lasts, that way you aren't going to lose something because of financial difficulties that we'll all going to be hit with (more on that later in the post!). I'm going to talk to the moderators about what is the best course of action, but if you were due VIP within the next month or so, we'll go ahead and grant those out ahead of schedule so that you can still be recognised for your channel support.

For those of you who don't know, VIP is a Discord rank as badge of channel support, similar to the Twitch system except its permanent. I never liked the way that Patreon encourage a Patreon-only discord channel, but if your membership lapses for even for a minute then it disappears forever. I plan on adding a tiered VIP system as, ridiculously, some people have over a year of uninterrupted membership. Most importantly, in times like now, it prevents a community being divided and falling apart based on purely financial uncertainty.

On to what this means for the channel - I fully understand that the Patreon will dip, and I expect by a massive amount, I've also cancelled a subscriptions this month because of Youtube monetisation changes.

Unfortunately, it means that my break from 3 series a day has immediately been reversed as new changes to Youtube means that the less than stellar amount I was getting from Youtube beforehand has become even worse. Even though it has only been a few days, the monetary impact is already visible, unbelievably.

Currently, I am looking at putting out the three daily videos on the main channel, with a rotating 3rd series voted on by patrons, a daily series on the second channel of whatever I feel like playing at the time, the occasional twitch stream I can eek out, and any other background work such as modding (GRRM mod now available ;) ) - hopefully this will be enough to keep the channel afloat and to buy enough garlic to stop my landlord crossing the threshold, but this long diatribe is basically supposed to say: I'm doing what I can to survive, absolutely you should too.

But when this quarantine is all over I expect STATUES TO BE ERECTED TO MY GLORY.  A TRIUMPH IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD AND YOUR FIRST BORN WILL BE NAMED STREAMER IN MY HONOUR.

TL:DR - Fully understand cancelling Patreon, VIPs going out early to combat quarantine cancellations, the channel will hopefully survive despite Youtube's best efforts, more content,

Yours humbly and gloriously,

Mr Streamer
Sam
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