Tiers Update (Patreon)

$1 Tier: Gfycat -> Free Parking

Working with Gfycat is a pain in the ass. It's slow to upload to, navigating the tabs to get each link is cumbersome, and that's not even counting the fact that it's pretty much guaranteed to fail to upload at least once for every 8 videos uploaded, and it only fails after sitting for 10+ minutes on 99% finished.

Compared to my file-server, which is just drop-and-forget, all of the filenames keep the rigid numbering structure I use, and the filenames being logical makes the variant URLs just a matter of changing a single number in the same URL several times.

Throw in the fact that not only is my file-server infinitely easier for me to work with, but is also a better quality for all of you, and I'm just going to drop Gfycat entirely.

The $3 high-quality watermarked tier will remain untouched. It's only the $1 tier that is being removed. It is returning to "Awesome Patron," a rewardless tier. If I can come up with a good reward for it, then I absolutely will update it. But that's a big if.

The Samus animation, [27Birthday], has been posted at $1 as an olive-branch to the $1 Patrons who will be losing their rewards. That post is what $3 Patrons normally get. Feel free to put that into consideration when deciding how to treat your existing $1 pledges. Whatever choice you make, be it unpledge, stay at $1, or upgrade to a higher tier, I completely respect and understand your choice.

$10 Tier: Free Parking -> 2160p Video Photosets

I have to give a big shout out to Supreme Overlord Demon Llama for this suggestion. The $10 tier will be replaced with collections of 2160p photosets of 1080p productions.

These photosets will simply be individual posters of various scenes, both SFW and NSFW, rendered and processed. Unlike simple screencaps from the 1080p videos, though, they will have the following advantages:

• No motion blur. They will be smooth, sharp, and crisp. So you can analyze and criticize every pixel.
• Native 2160p, as opposed to an upscaled 1080p.
• No watermark, so you can make that beautiful picture of Orin's pretty face from the Leliana short your watermark, and no one will ever know where you got such a beautiful piece.

Photosets for Honeydrop Interrogation and Radio Silence  will be added in the following two weeks. I can't promise any older projects, since there is a high probability I either don't have them, or I have since changed the models used, and so the projects no longer work correctly.

But if I can find any functioning older projects, then I will absolutely get photosets up for them, too. But Honeydrop and Radio are first priority.

Note that the photosets will NOT be posted with the $15 1080p early-access release. They will be posted with the free 720p public release, which is 5 days after the early-access release.

These changes will officially take place July 13, 2018.

This is simply a heads-up, so you can adjust your pledges as appropriate.

None of the other tiers are affected in any way.

Kind regards,
Your friendly neighborhood aardvark.