New Merchant Tier Now Open!
Hello all!
What are you waiting for? Become a licensed merchant now!
You read that right! After more than a year of the merchant doors being closed, they are now WIDE OPEN!
Only Merchants of the new tier are licensed to sell prints of both the Fantasy and Sci-fi models they have gained through subscribing here on Patreon or legally purchasing through our MyMiniFactory shop while maintaining an active merchant license.
📝 There will also be an Official Merchant List shown at ArchvillainGames.com.
Current merchants may maintain their current license have until January 1st, 2023 to transition to the new merchant tier. On January 1st, 2023, the old merchant tier and its license will be defunct.
🛑 Selling or in any way distributing our STLs or any other digital files is theft of our intellectual property and hurts the financial stability of every artist and employee of Archvillain Games.
We look forward to growing with our new merchants helping us bring our models to more happy tabletops!
We very much appreciate your support in all of this and as we grow, and thank you from the bottom of our black hearts!
Happy printing,
The Archvillain Games Team
Comments (24)
I have to agree that the price hike is substantial to say the least. I agree that I should be given the choice to support both the fantasy and sci-fi lines. I would like to see a price tier for just one of the lines. I've loved representing you and selling the prints, but lets keep it fair.
why are you forcing your merchants to pay for both your fantasy and scifi models when not all of us sell both? why couldnt you have multiple merchant tiers? one for scifi, one for fantasy and one for both. that would have been the fair and right thing to do for your merchants.
Are you guys discussing all of these negative replies, putting them into consideration and possibly rethinking your pricing options to help keep your most loyal and longest supporting merchants myself? Not just the pricing but the fact that you had mentioned to Bailey Anderson that you will not have a limit on the amount of merchants. So if I read this right, three times the cost and unlimited amount of competition? As with any business we invest in, we need to know the risks before we make a decision. I am sure I don’t speak for myself, we all need some transparency to know if making the decision to stay makes sense for our business. There is nothing worse then entering a Business agreement not knowing what your partners intentions are. If you want to sell 500 merch accounts and charge me $99 that would be an easy decision to leave It would not make any sense to be a licensed printer for Archvillain if that were the case If it was half that, $50 a month and a 250 merch account cap, it would be something to consider. If the cost stays the same and there is a reasonable cap on merchant accounts that would be a no-brainer. Where is the happy medium for your longest diehard supporters who have invested in years worth of your STL files and a commitment to Archvillain? If you can please respond in a pm or right here I would appreciate it. Love to know what to expect before I make this decision.
Hi guys, your models are great! but to raise the merchant tier to over $164 AUD you guys must be dreaming. If you want that money then you guys have to step up to the plate and offer more for the merchant tier. To ask those kind of prices is well and truly ridiculous. You guys need to work with your merchants cause they are the ones who along with you have a invested interest in the success of ArchVillan. I highly suggest you rethink your pricing.
Can i combine the multi part files to one file and rescale models (make them bigger or smaller?)
A hundred dollars a month? A MONTH. Absolute ridiculousness. I’m out.
A good kick in the ass for legal merchants 👏👏👏
Are we allowed to do previous months
So we get the equivalent of two patreons (good) at 4 times the average price (very bad) .... hard pass.
Why no December preview yet? :(
On the one hand I'm really glad to see this Patreon open up to physical print merchant licensing. But on the other the pricing seems totally out of touch with the margins of small volume (i.e. not mass produced/cast) miniatures and the competition from other merchant licenses. Might as well have made it 1k per month. Good luck to those that buy in!
I am honestly a bit shocked and confused by the pricing and the lack of limitation of licences. All that will happen is the bigger sellers will get them (and keep them) as they can justify the loss in the long term. Am I bitter as a smaller seller that this means that this is not really a viable option for me? Sure. As a supporter of archvillan for over 2 years, I feel like this is a bit of a kick in the nads to smaller sellers and isn't done for the community but a simple cash grab. I echo your sentiment. "Good luck to those that buy in"
The price is high, but the quality is very high and the collection is already very large and growing quickly! The price increase is dramatic compared to the previous one I could find (€33/month). The question is whether a merchant will have enough volume to justify the cost and still turn a profit. This might be nail in the coffin for the smaller sellers, but a huge boost for larger shops (less sellers)...
My sentiment exactly. £93 a month is nearly 3 times the nearest price if similarly large patreons. Defo not an option for smaller sellers. I mean just to factor in the cost of the licence you'd have to add 20% to the cost of everything
Do merchants get a promo code for mmf?
I also would like to know would I be able to get access to both fantasy and sci fi packs each month or do I need to subscribed to both the merchant and their respective park tiers?
Merchants get access to both Scifi and Fantasy.
Hey, I subscribed to the new merchant already, do I get the November Releases for the sify Tier also?
Yes.
Finally! I never pressed a Patreon post so fast in my life. Does the merchant tier only give you the ability to sell them? I don't seem to have access to the current month's downloads posts. I know this post was just made, and some changes might still need to be made.
£100 a month? Thats ridiculous!? This makes it so unvianle as an option? You would have to sell miniatures at such an extortionate rate just to cover the licence cost?!!!!
You made my day!
Will this be limited to a certain amount of merchants?
Not at this time.