Shameless Patreon Plug
My latest full comic starring Jane Porter has finally dropped! Available only to the $50 comic tier on my Patreon!
www.patreon.com/soverywaqqed
www.patreon.com/soverywaqqed
$50 a month to access a comic seems a bit much.
There will be several comics. Jane is just the first.
waqqed21 said:
There will be several comics. Jane is just the first.
There will be several comics. Jane is just the first.
Not to be "That Guy" but seriously dude, 50$ a month is like, waaaay too much for an online set of comics.
I mean, 600$ a year my dude!
I could literally have 10 years of Xbox live for that my dude, or like my first car again!
waqqed21 said:
My latest full comic starring Jane Porter has finally dropped! Available only to the $50 comic tier on my Patreon!
www.patreon.com/soverywaqqed
My latest full comic starring Jane Porter has finally dropped! Available only to the $50 comic tier on my Patreon!
www.patreon.com/soverywaqqed
FIFTY BUCKS FOR ONE SINGLE MONTH?! ARE YOU INSANE?????
Sorry dude, I don't imagine anybody would be able to afford that. Those kinds of prices should be for commissions. Kind of. Or at least a one off page of a commission. Something like that anyways. Not a MONTHLY entry fee for a couple of drawn comics.
And if that doesn't convince everyone, let me point out this: other services like Metrobay Comics, a bigger, more well known hypno porn comics site that has a team of multiple artists and writers and has significantly more comics than your Pateron page offer THREE months for LESS than $50 :/ Even most music or video makers on YouTube don't ask for those kinds of prices at their highest tiers, and they do need significantly more money than a comic artist :/
And even if you wanna say that it's more intended for one time purchases and that you can cancel monthly pays, $50 is STILL a SUBSTANTIAL entry fee for one single month for ANYTHING, even movies and game services don't reach these kinds of prices . _. You're never gonna be able to keep and maintain a good number of followers and supporters with those kinds of prices.
I mean, it's not unheard of to have reward tiers in Patreons that are expensive ; depending on the type of content produced, it can be a good way to give access to rewards that, by nature, are limited, hard to make, or should be quite exclusive (such as a spot in the credits for games and the like, or a personal meeting with the creators).
That said, 50$ for just access to a set of comic does seem like a lot, specifically because this doesn't look like the type of content that fits in such a high tier, and this is not helped by the fact that this is double the previous tier, which no other tier does. I think it doesn't really make sense that comics you produce would be 50$, and comic commissions (the tier below it) are 25, unless there's a huge difference in quality or amount between the two.
I don't mean to offend, and you seem to take pride in what you do, so I don't want to be too harsh, but another thing, for me at least, is that these are "Kaa edits" as you put it on your blog. While I don't doubt that you might be good at it, nor that they take some time and effort, it just feels a little greedy to make people pay any substantial amount of money for what are, in essence, glorified photo-manipulations that have very little in terms of actual original, creative content. This is really, I think, what makes this seem too much for me. The whole "setting up a Patreon for paid photo-manips" is already kind of dubious to me, but when you actually combine this with the prices that seem high, it really leaves a sour taste. Especially when artists that actually draw and/or paint their work completely from the bottom up have far lower prices per month, and sometimes have lower prices on individual commissions themselves.
But yeah, you do you, and it does seem like some support you as you have 37 patrons, so I guess something's working.
That said, 50$ for just access to a set of comic does seem like a lot, specifically because this doesn't look like the type of content that fits in such a high tier, and this is not helped by the fact that this is double the previous tier, which no other tier does. I think it doesn't really make sense that comics you produce would be 50$, and comic commissions (the tier below it) are 25, unless there's a huge difference in quality or amount between the two.
I don't mean to offend, and you seem to take pride in what you do, so I don't want to be too harsh, but another thing, for me at least, is that these are "Kaa edits" as you put it on your blog. While I don't doubt that you might be good at it, nor that they take some time and effort, it just feels a little greedy to make people pay any substantial amount of money for what are, in essence, glorified photo-manipulations that have very little in terms of actual original, creative content. This is really, I think, what makes this seem too much for me. The whole "setting up a Patreon for paid photo-manips" is already kind of dubious to me, but when you actually combine this with the prices that seem high, it really leaves a sour taste. Especially when artists that actually draw and/or paint their work completely from the bottom up have far lower prices per month, and sometimes have lower prices on individual commissions themselves.
But yeah, you do you, and it does seem like some support you as you have 37 patrons, so I guess something's working.
