Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users

vane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How did you get that? They’re just consolidating their pricing tiers. There was an $8 one and a $12 one, now there is only $10. Smack bang in the middle.

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not $10. It’s 10%.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      10%, $10, doesn’t matter.

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      • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fairly certain what you describe is what they meant with inflation proof compared to a fixed price.

        In any case, I imagine most Patreon creators have over time adjusted their reward tiers, or gathered more Patreon supporters to keep up with how Inflation affects their costs, thus giving more to Patreon. Both the company and creators would benefit here.

        Instead, increasing the (average) percentage just helps the company at the cost of creators. To make their pay keep up with inflation, they still need to either increase the number of supporters or the price of rewards, so the company benefits doubly.

        There seem to be enough alternatives that only charge a 5% fee, so this might just lose Patreon money if enough Creators see this as a step too far.

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  • vane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We also want to minimize any impact to your business, which is why prices are not increasing for you or anyone with a published Patreon page that launches on or before August 4th.

    If you publish a new Patreon creator page before or on August 4th, you’ll lock in the lower, 8% platform plan.

    They wrote that in article.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So how does that indicate that their business model is stagnating?

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      • vane@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I assume new users get lower chance to get donations. I found this chart today graphtreon.com/patreon-stats, not sure how legit it is but it just proves that they are not growing anymore.

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