TRIGGER
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April Update//Possible changes
🕑 Added 2019-04-01 09:54:53 +0000 UTC
Hello Patrons!
Apologies for the silence. With the release date for PROMARE announced (5.24), situation at the studio has been quite hectic!
I’ve got quite the number of updates to share with everyone today. Some of these are still pending so it would be great to hear how everyone feels about these.
Events for April to May
I’ve mentioned in previous post as well, but due to the production of PROMARE, we will have to take a break from some of our activities. Our next live drawing stream will sadly have to be postponed until June or later.
However, we are considering to conduct a “filler” stream. The content of the stream may include a toy/figurine review by Hiromi Wakabayashi, or possibly a game play stream with the community. It’d be great if we can receive some input if there are any demands for these, or possibly other suggestions!
Change in Payment procedure
Hopefully this is not an issue to the majority of our supporters. The studio has decided that it would be best if those who wish to join our community will be charged upfront. The change will not affect our pre-existing Patrons, and will mainly be a change applied to those who are planning to become a Patron of ours in the future.
The system is explained by the Patreon support page as follows,
Your existing patrons will be charged on the 1st of the month like usual. However, if they increase or decrease their pledge the month you switch to charge up front, they will be billed immediately in full.
We hope to put this into effect starting this May.
Handling of our Shikishi/Autograph boards
Throughout various posts, we’ve been requested if the Shikishi/Autograph board can be a part of a raffle. While we would like to offer such service, there seems to be a rule against raffles on Patreon.
However, we might be able to do a first come first serve sale for these Shikishi/Autograph board if there enough demands.
The idea is to prepare a new tier with limited quantity (The quantity will reflect the amount of illustrations we have). The Patron will not be able to choose which illustration, but will be guaranteed to receive the physical Shikishi/Autograph boards. In order to provide a fair chance to all of our participants, the Shikishi/Autograph tier will be deleted or unpublished every month to avoid any single Patron to repeatedly receive the reward. (I believe it was impossible to edit or delete a tier if there are active participants in a particular tier which is a concern)
There are however many more concerns at our end so we are in the process of consulting with a Patreon representative if such concept is possible.
And, that is it for what's on our plate for now! All of your feedback and inputs are important to us so please let us know through the comment section below!
Before I wrap it up, a sneak peak for our March Shikishi...! Hopefully I'll get around the scans by this week.
Comments
ArtMark88
I would love to see Hiromi-san review Trigger merch or build Legos! Hell, I’ll watched an improvised Inferno Cop skit using paper cut outs of the characters! Getting one of the Shikishi boards would be nice but I’m curious if it would be easier to just put them up on the Trigger international store?
Jacob
While I'd love to get a shikishi, keeping up with the tier for it seems like a lot of extra work, and shipping could be a nightmare. I'm more than happy to pay a higher tier for a digital shikishi, and I'm sure most others would be as well. Like many have said, we're here to support an amazing studio because we love the work you do.
I would love to be able to buy shikishi
Wendell Hong
Creating a tier where people get randomly selected Autograph boards sounds like a good idea to me. I know of at least one creator that does something similar to that already.
Crazy Sticks
Oh man, I would totally love to actually get one of those autograph boards! That would be so cool!!!
MoppyPuppy
TRIGGER, its April Fools Day. No one is going to believe anything you wrote here.
A “filler” stream would be completely fine! Both of the suggestions you made sounded great! I, personally, love to hear anything about figurines as well as gaming. In the end, like many others, I am just happy to be able to support you all, so don’t feel too pressured. I am extremely interested in the opportunity to be able to receive one of the Shikishi boards though.. looking forward to that update! And, of course, I am excited for Promare!
Armandood
It would be cool if you guys can get a demo build of Kill la Kill The Game IF before release and play on stream and give your thoughts about it. Also...Promare hype off the charts!!!
Bill Erak
Do whatever you want, I'm just here 'cause I love you guys.
I think most of us don't even care about the rewards. We just want to support you guys. If you keep making anime, that is the best reward we could possibly hope to get!
ZigZagKangaroo
The autograph board idea sounds rad. Please do!
Studio TRIGGER
Thanks for stating your concerns. According to the support search result, that will not be the case. <a href="https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/208404313-Why-was-I-charged-immediately-Will-You-charge-me-again-">https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/208404313-Why-was-I-charged-immediately-Will-You-charge-me-again-</a>
I'd gladly watch you guys do random stuff on the stream, heck you could even start explaining/introducing random items purchased from a thrift store and I'll still tune in. As for the shikishis, I hope you can get something sorted with Patreon soon!
KiTA
No, they won't pay twice if they want to join. Only if they make changes. This is to prevent fraudulent accounts and bots.
It turns out, users will pay twice if they want to join or make changes to the payment? Is this an April Fool's joke?
