I think it's fundamentally counter productive to hide promotional teaser images behind exclusive tiers. It's another flaw in the Patreon economy, higher tiers need more rewards, and that can create weird situations. Promotional items should be shared by the dev everywhere. But what do you give patrons that give $40/month? Polls? Do you let them request bonus scenes?
When I ponder the idea of my own game, and I think about tiers, I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have just a single tier. Something like $15 gets you everything. If you want to donate more because you love the game, awesome, but you don't get additional benefits. I don't know if there's a good answer, but L&P's approach seems counter productive.
I agree. High-tier patrons don't really have any benefits with pirate sites existing anyway. I think L&P really needs to overhaul his tier list, as most of it is outdated.
- All previous rewards
- Get access to the latest version on the release day
- Access to some hot scenes of future releases
- 1080p versions of some of the best scenes and animations
- Your name mention in the credits
- You get to vote for future game topics
- And… YOU’RE JUST AWESOME!!!
- Pirates get the game on release day.
- Access to hot scenes I guess means teasers? Yeah, well, we all know how that one goes, lol.
- Pretty sure 1080p is standard for every render, no? Rendering in 720p while using 2x 3090ti's? Right...
- I've never checked, but are there credits anywhere?
- Voting on game topics, huh? Was that ever a thing? Can't recall patrons having a say in produced content.
- Yay, you're awesome! The more money you throw at him, the more "loyal" you are in his eyes. Yay!