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Mutants & Masterminds Patreon: An Interview With Green Ronin Publishing
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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8202952" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>For me, it depends on the nature of the service. If I'm paying a monthly subscription fee, am I getting a monthly value?</p><p></p><p>A while back, I needed various Adobe software tools for a class I was taking. Paying for them all at once would have been prohibitively expensive, but by then Adobe had moved to a subscription model. I only paid for the service for the months I needed to take the class, and got a student-discounted rate as well. Worked out pretty well. I think if I hadn't been a student, the monthly fee would have been higher, and it would have come with a year-long commitment . . . which worked out to be a very similar cost to what Adobe used to charge for the one-time fee. So, the overall cost (for a non-student) would have been roughly the same, but paid in monthly installments rather than all-at-once.</p><p></p><p>While I was a subscriber, I got access to an entire suite of software apps which I could explore and learn to use. I got free software updates, whereas in the old model, when the "new" version of the software came out, you had to pay for it all over again. Now, if I required some of these Adobe programs to do my job (and my employer wasn't paying for them), year after year of paying monthly fees might just become more expensive than the old model, one-time purchase followed by another one-time purchase down the road for the updated software version.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, this is straying off-topic. Sorry to badger you. Managing multiple subscription services, for both work and play, can become a hassle and certainly can add up and become very expensive . . . but this is the environment we live in now, and I'm okay with that as long as I'm getting value for my subscriptions and staying within my budget. I'm perfectly cool with Green Ronin offering this M&M Patreon, and possibly additional future Patreons as well, as ENPublishing does.</p><p></p><p>Every couple of months I review my Patreon account to make sure I'm only supporting content creators who I'm currently enjoying their content and that my overall Patreon bill doesn't get too big. I add, drop, and re-add creators all the time, as my needs and wants (and budget) changes. I follow a lot of creators without actually subscribing too, as a way to keep tabs on folks whose work I like, but I'm not ready to start paying for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8202952, member: 18182"] For me, it depends on the nature of the service. If I'm paying a monthly subscription fee, am I getting a monthly value? A while back, I needed various Adobe software tools for a class I was taking. Paying for them all at once would have been prohibitively expensive, but by then Adobe had moved to a subscription model. I only paid for the service for the months I needed to take the class, and got a student-discounted rate as well. Worked out pretty well. I think if I hadn't been a student, the monthly fee would have been higher, and it would have come with a year-long commitment . . . which worked out to be a very similar cost to what Adobe used to charge for the one-time fee. So, the overall cost (for a non-student) would have been roughly the same, but paid in monthly installments rather than all-at-once. While I was a subscriber, I got access to an entire suite of software apps which I could explore and learn to use. I got free software updates, whereas in the old model, when the "new" version of the software came out, you had to pay for it all over again. Now, if I required some of these Adobe programs to do my job (and my employer wasn't paying for them), year after year of paying monthly fees might just become more expensive than the old model, one-time purchase followed by another one-time purchase down the road for the updated software version. Anyway, this is straying off-topic. Sorry to badger you. Managing multiple subscription services, for both work and play, can become a hassle and certainly can add up and become very expensive . . . but this is the environment we live in now, and I'm okay with that as long as I'm getting value for my subscriptions and staying within my budget. I'm perfectly cool with Green Ronin offering this M&M Patreon, and possibly additional future Patreons as well, as ENPublishing does. Every couple of months I review my Patreon account to make sure I'm only supporting content creators who I'm currently enjoying their content and that my overall Patreon bill doesn't get too big. I add, drop, and re-add creators all the time, as my needs and wants (and budget) changes. I follow a lot of creators without actually subscribing too, as a way to keep tabs on folks whose work I like, but I'm not ready to start paying for. [/QUOTE]
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