Early Access vs 1080p - Part 2: Thoughts (Patreon)

The reason I brought it up is I've been debating adding a lower-quality early access to replace the Free Parking $10, but I was afraid that a lot of people would just jump from the $15  down to the $10, not giving a fuck about the 1080p and just wanting early access - and in doing so, causing me to potentially lose hundreds in funding from the wave of downgrades, which is antithetical to my goals of raising funds for hiring co-animators.

From the sounds of it, both in your comments and in the poll, it seems that most of the people who subscribe to the $15 tier prefer the 1080p over the early access, and so hopefully not too many would jump ship.

I will put more thought into it, but right now I am leaning toward a 480p early access reward for the $10 reward. The reason for 480p is that 720p is a fairly standard quality still and is quite sharp besides - I know plenty of people who are perfectly fine with 720p and actually prefer it over 1080p for the sake of their bandwidth. But 480p is pretty widely considered "basic bitch" these days, and not many people are content with 480p.

At the same time, 480p is still clear enough to get a good idea of what you're looking at, even if everything is pixelly and blotchy. So it's enough to whet appetites and maybe even persuade people to drop the extra 5 bucks to get that crisp, clean 1080p.

I will put some thought into it still, but I do think I will end up doing that. Feel free to drop your thoughts on the idea, as comments to this post.