Apple-Fee and Patreon website update
Hey hey everyone! Hope everyone are doing well!
Usually i try to avoid doing some "news" posts here, and trying to focus on delivering some new content, but this news heavily affects the whole Patreon platform, so i feel like i need to share it to you asap. Well, attached email screenshot pretty much says it all.
Long story short - it seems like Apple is about to introduce 30% fee to all new Patreon memberships purchased in iOS App Store, starting from November 2024.
By the example provided by Patreon website itself - if you are using Patreon application from iOS AppStore, and for example you support Patreon creator via 10$ subscription, your subscription price may get raised up to 14.50$ cause of new Apple Fee policy.
From how we understand the situation, if you are subscribing to us (or any other creator on Patreon) from your browser or just any other PC/Android phone/device, your subscription pricing should stay the very same. So if you are using your iphone to sub to us or other creators through the iOS app, please consider switching and using your browser instead so you don't have to pay the new fees. Supposedly existing subs won't be affected, but if you leave and re-sub later for our releases for example it will apply to you in that case.
Additionally, and this wont affect our Patreon page at least for now, it seems like Patreon website is gonna get rid of a lot of other membership types (like pay-for-creation), because this new 30% Apple-Fee system "doesnt support it". Patreon CEO provides some more info about the matter https://youtu.be/L-LoTH3PzgM
We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause. I really hope this decision will be cancelled, but well... something tells me it wont, at least in a short term. We will keep you updated on the matter, and hopefully bring some good news on this topic in future.
If you have some questions, i'll try to answer as much as i can in comments, but this new system is as new to me, as it is to you too.
Stay safe n healthy and til then!
P.S. More links on the topic:
Patreon CEO commentary https://youtu.be/L-LoTH3PzgM
Patreon news article https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon
Patreon reddit with ton of discussion on the matter rn https://www.reddit.com/r/patreon/
Comments (35)
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Cuando está el porcentaje de la animación de Melina y lawa parte 2 está al 30% o 50% y el porcentaje de la animación de slime y mona
Good thing I use android.
Fortunately I won’t be unsubscribing, it’s peak here.
So what if I subscribed using the browser but then added the app on my iPhone to get more convenient updates? Or is this just for users who only subscribe via the iPhone app?
The Patreon article above says, that its just for those who subscribed via AppStore app. But to be 100% sure about such specific situation, i think it will be best to ask Apple Support itself...
ViciNeko definitly worth the fee anyway so I would pay it regardless, but lucky I sub on browser
U are too kind. Thank you! ❤️ (⁄ ⁄ ⁄ω⁄ ⁄ ⁄)⁄ ❤️
Just subscribe in the Web
Yep, just sub via browser (๑❛ڡ❛๑)👍
So what I get out of this is that Android is better. xD
Til Google comes up with something similar =P I HOPE NOT
So we just have to sign in through a pc or laptop to keep paying same price. Or resubscribe through a pc/laptop.
If i understand correctly, u just need to evade subscribing through the iOS app. If you use your iphone, and subscribe via browser, u probably will be fine too (๑❛ڡ❛๑)👍
Thanks god i use patreon only on samsung and my i phone i use for work etc xd
And sadly, it still will affect the Patreon communities that are using non-standard sub system, like pay-for-creation, even if they have nothing to do with Apple at all
And they called Google a monopoly for paying companies to set Google as the default search engine. Here comes Apple forcing companies to remove alternative payment methods on Apple devices. Make it make sense. xD
Theres no way it wont bite them back, so i hope this decision will be cancelled in future. But this future may still be far away
greedy buggers
yep QQ
Didn’t they do something like this to Fortnite mobile? I can’t believe as a company you get outed as an illegal monopoly and then decided to be an even worse bastard.
Seems like these companies never lose. If one way fails, they just get their money somewhere else. This "somewhere else" is us today.
So this is only effects apple users?
By the info provided by Patreon itself, 30% price raise only affects new Patreon memberships purchased in iOS App Store, starting from November 2024. But it also heavily affects creators who were using (for example) pay-for-creation model, cause Patreon gets rid of all but standard subscription systems (cause Apple-fee doesnt support any other sub models)
Well thankfully I don't use any Apple products but man that's sucks for people who do.
Thats the sad part - it affects even those, who are not using their products. Patreon is getting rid of subscription systems, that are not supported by Apple-fee system, so it may seriously disrupt some subscribers/creators way of sharing their stuff
apple is just begging to lose another lawsuit at this rate.
Tho it seems like it may take a while, cause both Patreon and Apple seem to be USA based companies...
Huh? This sounds exactly the opposite of what the EU told Apple to do. Are they doubling down on every other region because they’re salty?
In terms of Patreon, it seems like it will affect all iOS subscribers that subbed via AppStore application. Regardless of their region/country... And from my understanding, its not just Patreon, its ALL iOS AppStore purchases...