Nah, you misunderstand the point of my post. I have no beef with you, just want to draw your attention to potentially troublesome situations that may arise.
Basic members get nothing but status updates, so as a former basic member I was wondering why I haven't heard anything from you on Patreon for a relatively long time.
Turns out, I don't even get notifications about you posting content for higher-tiers, not even to let me know something is cooking.
Is this your personal setting, or is this default Patreon behaviour?
Regarding the Status Update: It just seems
iffy that there is a Sneak Peek before an actual Status Update. I am not too concerned over this, just venting a bit I guess. Your post history on Patreon suggested a different pattern, but whatever.
- A small sidenote: The terminology of the membership perks is a bit unclear as to what >Extra< Sneak Peeks means. It seems you count Status Updates as Sneak Peeks, even though they are labeled as a separate perk; "Extra" usually suggest some additional content for the deeper wallets, which in turn means there are "Regular" Sneak Peeks. So, in your case, Status Updates are considered Regular Sneak Peeks. Maybe it's just me, but I would like clearer terms on what these words mean to you.
As for your last question: I agree with you that weekly status updates on games that will take upwards of 6 months to update are near-useless, they are clearly there so that the fans feel some sort of engagement with the developers and their financial contribution isn't in vain. Not the worst business practice, but I don't care much for it. Like you said, they are either mostly filled with boring technical stuff or excuses. The 2-month dev cycle is IMHO perfect for a quality production and decent story pace, so I don't want you to change that, not what my post was about at all.
Only Love from me,