One thing I have wondered (morbidly) is : how many of DC's subscribers are possibly... well... dead? and yes I know the bank will close the account, but that's only AFTER they are informed, you would be surprised at how long automated payments and a healthy bank account can go on for if the bank somehow doesn't get informed.
Dead? Probably not a lot. But I could see a lot of people that are subbed to the $1 tier and even some in the $5 tier that just forgot that they are still subbed.
The worldwide annual mortality rate is less 2% of adults (for 18-60) as of 2021 when it was at its highest in two decades. In the US, financial institutions regularly receive notifications of SSNs for people who have died and don't necessarily need to wait for someone to notify them in order to freeze accounts. In order to close them, it requires more attention - yes.
This would be higher than the deaths, for sure... but I would take "a lot" with a grain of salt. But yeah, even if it is hypothetically 25% then that's about 7,000 subscribers (about $15,000 monthly of the $60,000-ish). What's $1 per month to many people? That doesn't even buy a fountain drink nowadays. And $5? That's less than a value meal at a fast food restaurant each month. That should tell us that for those who forget, the money they subscribe is petty cash not worth their time to worry about.
They know. They are trolling.
In my experience it really doesn't last very long, unless we are talking about people with no heirs or such. Taking care of financial stuff is usually among the first things, people do once they have to deal with inheritance. Sure, there'll be some, but I doubt it's going to be significant.
I always ask myself how that is actually possible nowadays. You get a monthly detailed patreon receipt via mail and at least where I'm living (in a country which is said to not be very digital) you'll get notifications on your smartphone/tablet/whatever everytime your bankaccount or credit card are charged. You really have to ignore these intentionally for a very long time.
That ain't even dolphin money in some of the bigger gachas.
Ah yes.
It's also possible that people subbed at the $1 tier find sufficient value in a couple wallpapers and a status update sent directly to their inbox every month. Heck, I subbed to DPC for the better part of a year for $1 just for the convenience of not having to sift through ten pages of slop every Friday to find the weekly progress report. I might have considered doing the same for DC if I didn't get some mild enjoyment out of the tire fire that is this thread.
Where this comes from is 25:45-34:10 in Friday's
I don't how I feel about that. But it's probably not worse than not releasing anything for over a year.
It is honestly a better release model, since we already know it would've took the update a year or more to be finished either way. There would be at least something to show for it, even if people are gonna complain about it, it's actually nice to see the content again rather than just progress reports be it polished or otherwise.
probably 2 years more for the first part with probably 5 mins of content
Ah yes, release the tech update in parts now, so take everything you've already spent 3 years on, segment all of what's already finished out so you can now drip feed what was supposed to be out years ago (say do one chunk every year?), and keep the gravy train going for another decade at least.
