Patreon new policy, in a nutshell... (Patreon)

Hi there,

As I imagine most of you will have received an email from Patreon today, and I know perfectly well how fancy wording is the recipe for misunderstandings, let me explain to you what that message actually means in one short sentence...:

Patreon is transferring payment handling fees from us creators, to you patrons.

Is that good for us...? Absolutely!

Until now, we received about an 87-89% of your pledges, because those payment platforms fees were charged to us.

From now on, we will receive a fixed 95% of your pledges and Patreon will get their 5% commission as always.

However, I will admit this policy is... weird to say the least. It's like if you went to an online shop, bought something and then you were charged an additional fee just because you're paying with PayPal.

Those fees are almost invariably supported by merchants just because they want to offer an additional payment method to their customers. But in this case you guys will be the ones paying for our costs (we are the "merchant" here).

So what this means is that you're giving us more money now.

Of course you are the masters of your lives and could decide to stop pledging to our project. This was always based on goodwill and that won't change because of this new policy. If you feel we don't deserve your support, then we don't.

However, if you're just feeling mad at Patreon for their decision... well, at least know this is good for us. ;-P

Thanks for reading!