Alternative donation site online (Patreon)

Hey there guys,

These couple of days have been weird and stressful...

I won't lie to you: I didn't work on the game because I've been searching for a solution to the worrying decline rates we creators have been experiencing the past months.

I mean, we're talking about four times the number of usual declines... which is not extremely problematic in itself, but what it terrifies me is that the trend maintains over time. Losing around a 4-8% patrons each month?? Gods no...

So, after some serious research (my head's spinning...) about almost every possibility available to us, taking into account our own personal situations for both Kuja and me, I've decided to keep it simple and open an alternative donation site:

https://ko-fi.com/abelius

Now, it's NOT intended to replace Patreon. Please do not switch to that site to make your pledges if they're currently working here!

That site is... awfully simple. It doesn't have a tenth of Patreon's features to manage users. So if you go there to support us, you need to know some things...:

1.- Each "coffee" is 1$

So if you want to donate $10 (warrior level), you'll actually need to write "10" in the coffees box.

I know it's obvious, but just in case. ^_^

2.- You can use both PayPal and cards

Regardless of its simple design, it has the same payment facilities as Patreon. It's a secure site also.

3.- It's a ONE-TIME donation only.

This means that if you donate a given amount, it won't be charged again next month. So, if you need to resource to that site again in the future (because Patreon still doesn't work for you next month), you'll need to return there and make another donation.

We may enable subscriptions at a later time, but we can't do that now... for reasons.

4.- You absolutely need to write down your Patreon and Discord usernames.

Use that "Your message of support" textbox for that purpose. Then select "Private" so other users visiting the page can't see your info (if you mind that).

This is critical for me to manually assign you the appropriate role in Discord and add you to mailing lists here.

5.- DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE GAME IN THAT SITE!!

I don't think I need to elaborate on the reason for this. Please, keep it clean!

So, this is the solution we have for the time being.

There are other alternatives that we're not prepared to take on, like adding e-Commerce capabilities to our own server. Tbh, it's tempting, but a world of pain to manage (both at the technical and fiscal fronts) if, at the end, only ten people retries their pledges using our backup site.

Let's see how this develops and we may switch to a more professional method.

Thank you for supporting us, and a second one if you go the extra mile to retry your pledge over there. ^_^