Changes Going Forward

I was gonna say something but the others said pretty much everything I would've fr.

I agree with Ninja about the 2 dollar tier being fine to keep, it's pretty clear that it's a tip jar, after all. Why not keep it? Also yeah as Ninja says to, as a brit myself, 20% VAT suuuucks for big price increases, it'll go from $6 (With VAT) to $12 (With VAT) if it was $10 Also, in case you don't read all of this (apologies for the yapp) at the end I say why I think it might be best to make potentially 2 NSFW tiers, one being higher priced than the other. I also agree that some prices need changing since you're now presumably working consistently on a webcomic rather than just monthly sketches like before? Spending more time on your art, so more money for it? Makes sense to me to need more money for that. However, I think most of the people already here /were/ here because of the NSFW sketches and while the webcomic has caught my eye, I think increasing the prices on the NSFW stuff because of it and well /over/ it, without any signs (yet?) of changes to the quantity or time / finish put into the NSFW isn't the best image to give. I for example unsubscribe and resubscribe between dryer periods of said NSFW art (Having forgotten about this Patreon until this public post, which has made me want to redo my subscription, especially with the huge image dump to come) Because of that, I think you risk people leaving or doing what I used to do with this pricing plan because the content they were here for doubled in price without any assurances of their rewards changing to match said price in any way. Made worse by similarly priced ($8-10) Patreons setting a standard that yours would be below, making it look less enticing to subscribe to. It's a difficult situation since I can't exactly ask for more Shpice to "match" the price (imo) since I think supporting your webcomic you are clearly passionate about is top priority. But I also find it hard to justify said prices with some months previously giving 6 sketches. (I'm here for the art, not the twitch streams, sorry to say) I wouldn't put NSFW sketches to $8-10. They are sketches, and while it's what a good number of people are here for, I don't think putting them above a fully fleshed out webcomic page's pricing gives the best image, since it's putting a doubled-higher price on what people are here for, and sort of makes the webcomic tier feel like a shoe-in to justify it, at least to me. (Again, due to not much being said about NSFW rewards changing to match the price change, yet) HOWEVER, NSFW animations or shaded / full pieces that we used to get every couple months, or more? Which take ages (as they should!) and are often damned good quality when they get past initial stages? Now they can be $8-10 or more, easily more really. Hell, make a pricey tier where there's an animation made or high quality piece made that people get to vote on, and see the progress of before anyone else? That's a good way to get people to want to pay more. In my eyes, I don't see the current rewards for NSFW at all being enough for $8-10 but, I could see a tier of that price where people who pay for it get a say in bigger pieces (Or get to see them early), or vote on what sketches to do next etc etc as more enticing. People happily pay more, if they get more of the content / themes they like, after all and a say in it. I would see a $5 webcomic (Which is a shame, because the art quality is really good, but it's more due to demand so far. People can easily get hooked on it, and have it truly be the main thing.) $6-7 NSFW sketches (With perhaps weekly or whatever uploads rather than monthly, to keep people enticed / around and the patreon feeling / looking active for potential new subscribers) and $8-10+ voting / big NSFW piece posts tier as more reasonable. E.g. choose the character, what's going on and so on (With you choosing said options, so you're not doing stuff you don't wanna do)

updating the patreon for more variation in tiers is always a good option. the 2 dollar tier currently does not grant benifits so i don't understand the point of removing it at all. its legit a "i want to support but cannot afford much" option. so some cash is better than none. Upping the lood tier to 8-10 makes sense, folks will dissagree or say the patreon isn't updating consistent enough (customers will always bitch) would vouch for 8 but that's only due to budgetary reasons as i want to support as many great beans as i can. Aaaaaand VAT charges suck.