[Important] Changes and Improvements: Tiers and Rewards

Hello again beWildernauts, we’re back again so soon. We’ve got plenty of changes and improvements to go over with y’all, so here we are once more to discuss our plans, go over the details and let you all know what’s what well in advance on next month when they take effect. Let’s get to it, shall we?

Before we get into the meat of today, a quick reminder. Our first post in this same series of change topics covers our Season 2 content, specifically Silence & Stilettoes and our beWilder’s Wildest 2019 contest. If you haven’t already, check it out here and pick up the details, as well as have your vote heard in our poll on a yes/no for a new bWW! contest. Also, be sure to join us on Discord for a deeper discussion if you’ve something to let us know about, or even leave us a comment or a direct message here on the page either. Alright, that said, let’s get to today.

As the title suggests, the second in our series of posts is all about our tiers and rewards. This set might just be the most dramatic of the changes we’ve got coming as we aim to laser-focus on our main content and make our tiers fairer for all who support us. We’ll save the preamble for a note at the bottom and get right to the practicalities, the part that needs the most spotlight.

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Bold Tier (Revised), $1

· Games 1 month (4 Weeks max) after first release, 

· NSFW Post Access, 

· Backer Discord Role, 

· Supporter Discord Role for Life

The Bold tier is our simplest way of showing support. Before now it was more of a tip-jar kind of experience, a way to show the world your fandom for us and allowing us to show some love back in return. It came with a few perks along the way too but was more for the casual fan than anything else.

Now we’re making sure to have even our lower tier fans in the loop and in the club, no more “one foot in, one foot out”. We’re guaranteeing a release to all our backers now, and we’re cutting the wait time down to a few weeks max. We want all our supporters to get the content of the month as it is coming, though still giving ourselves time to include proper testing and fixes reported as the playtesters of the higher tiers supply us with improvements. We’re also scraping our tiered teasers now too, apart from specific reward posts we aim to make all our posts either public or all-backer, giving all out fans the same amount of teasers, sexy (due to Patreon rules all nudity is fan accessible only so we’ll make it worth it!) and SFW, to all. We are of course not shying away from our Discord either, it’s well known we love it there, so we are keeping the special shout outs for our fans there too. (Please note: Unless you link your Discord with your Patreon account, we can’t know you’re a backer so do let us know and we can hook you up manually.)

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Brave Tier (Revised), $4.99

· Games 2 Weeks after first release, 

· Comic Media (Currently AoH’s ‘The Last Raider’) on Release, with Decision Vote.

· Feed Access and Discord Roles Above

The Brave tier is place for fans who are in it for the love of what we do, and who like a little bonus themselves for their part in making what we do possible.

Much like the Bold tier above, we’re aiming to make the Brave tier something people really fell they are getting as much love back as they are giving. They of course get the same benefits for the page that the Bold fans get, but we also want to keep rewarding this show of fandom and support by keeping the Brave’s say in how we shape our side media and make their mark on our world, currently via our comic ‘The Last Raider’. See down below for the new specific on the comic too. Of course, the biggest advantage to the tier is it’s now 1 step away from the premier release of our main content, what we’re all here for after all, it’s now months closer than it was and all the fans get the goods well within good time while we still have a window of opportunity to add any major fixes, improvements or balances should we need to.

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Daring Tier (Revised), $9.99

· Games Premier Release, Monthly as Normal. 

· Game Walkthrough (Currently NTR), with Release 

· Comic Release and Vote Above 

· Feed Access and Discord Roles Above

The Daring tier is the place for the die hard and dyed-in-the-wool fans, who want it all and want it now, as well as want to see us thrive and flourish as much as possible, just like us.

Daring fans get all we have to offer, first and foremost, the games as they are made. They have the opportunity to live the world we make without wait, and to help us make sure we live up to our promise as our leading external playtesters. We’re also keeping our game walkthrough as a special reward for them too, as a token of our thanks for such a supportive role they play and to ensure they can find their way to all content we can possibly offer. They also of course also have all the same perks as the Brave and Bold tiers as well.

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Adventurous Tier (??? – In Question), $???

· ???

The Adventurous tier is in question… Over our 2 and half years we’ve been doing this we’ve have a surprising number of people who have been willing to put their faith in us enough to make this tier a legitimate one. To those, we say a serious thank you, it’s true that this tier and those people’s support has been an important part in keeping us able to stay with our games full time. However, we don’t want to fill up on additional rewards, to take away from our games focus anymore or to extend release wait times… so it’s hard to see why we would keep this tier around other than as a prestige support level for certain fans and to make sure we stay above the waterline financially.

… So we’d like to hear on this one from you guys. What things would you as fans live to see here, that wouldn’t take away from our game time and that would be fair for all our fans? Or do you think Daring is enough and it’s not needed? We’re going to continue to reflect on this one in the next few weeks, listen to y’all and your ideas, and come to a more concrete idea here later in the month. Should we find nothing we think can justify the tier and that doesn’t get us back into our current distracted territory, we’ll simply put it to rest and put it away. We’re sure the current Adventurous fans will understand.

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Pure Wild Tier (Defunct).

The Pure Wild tier is where our purest hearted and ultimate fans currently reside. Some are still there from when it was originally the ‘Villains’ Tier pre-beWilder, and some are even there from the earliest days of our time on the Adult Scene. It is no small thing how much we love them, or how much they have done to make all we’ve achieved possible. If not for them we’d have starved in the dark long ago. We know full well there will be one or two who won’t want to lower their pledge, however this is not goodbye, merely a change for the better.

Up until now the main benefit for this tier, beyond ensuring we could keep going on and on, was our Pure Wild Package, a month issue of special art pieces, insider stories, sneak peeks at what we had in the pipeline and what things we did but decided not to show. Well… with our renewed focus on our games, we just can’t do that anymore, it’s time better spent on our actual games. If we could drop only one thing and turn that time back to making CGs for our games, it would clearly be this one, and so we have to do it. These fans, and all our fans at that, will see the good stuff still shine through in better updates going forward.

Our current backlog of package contents will be kept and used in other ways so as not to let them go to waste. Exactly what we’ll do with them is a still something we are deciding on, and will be a plan for another day.

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Ok then guys and gals, before we hit the end of our post and hit into a summery, we’re going to recap so far by changing perspective and looking specifically at each of the rewards we offer to date and what’s happening with them, short and sharply.

Our Rewards Status:

- Game Releases – They are staying as monthly releases, with a lower wait time and all fans getting the latest content with a month of it out of the forge.

- Comic Releases – We’re renewing our efforts on this front, making it the only side content we do with our games. We’re also looking to moving to a monthly release here, even if it is just a page rather than waiting until we have a full chapter block to drop.

- Silence & Stilettoes Content – All Cancelled/Indefinite Hiatus. See post here for details.

- Walkthrough Rewards – Remaining mostly unchanged, staying with the Daring tier, currently only for the NTR game, but may be introduced for our later projects in time.

- Scene Gallery Access Code – This is a long defunct reward we should have scrapped long ago. It’s gone, but look out for our later series post on the games themselves for more on this.

- Pure Wild Package – Cancelled, the time will be better invested into the games from now on.

- Feed Access – We’re cutting tiered teaser access, making all non-reward posts public or all-backer, including the NSFW available to all supporters.

- Discord Roles - Unchanged, just be sure to ask for them if you don’t automatically get them. For the most part Patreon doesn’t tell us who you are there unless you let them.

- beWilder’s Wildest Contest/Voting – In Question, vote here for your say. If it returns it will be open to all supporters.

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And that’s the changes for today… It’s a lot, huh? By all means, take the whole month to think them over and adjust if you need, that’s why we are explaining them early so next month they don’t come as a surprise to y’all.

Before we go, we still have that pre-amble (now post-amble) for you as we said above, so here it is for those interested. When we first set out to make our games, we took a big risk in doing so, jumping in fully and making this our full-time job and only source of income because we want to live our dreams. As Unshi says, don’t feel sorry for us, we get to do what we love. However, we are telling you this because it formed the way we designed our tiers and rewards before now. We both live in expensive EU countries, each US$ to many developers out there is a fortune in their local currency, to us it’s <€1. So, to earn enough support to just pay our bills we aimed for more higher tiers (since quality is worth paying for, right?), with more rewards and fan content to justify them, aiming to make sure those who showed us such unbelievable support where well treated for the kindness we saw it as…

… However, now that we’re at it long enough, we’ve had time to really take note of what been happening over that extended time. It’s not just us who work hard to get by, and not the only ones who scape together for those US$, to some supporters out there it’s really a lot to pull together too. With that in mind, and with our desire to really make some changes for the better with our games and wider world, we came to the changes we listed above. We want to make sure our games get the most of our focus, that we do all we can to make them all they can be as soon as they can be, and to give the player an experience worth the fandom. If that means it’s also an experience itself worth supporting, all the better! We of course wish we could do every little idea that comes to mind, every little side content piece too, but it’s better to make sure all fans are treated well, and treated right in our rewards, and make sure the stuff we’re all here for is where our focus lies. That’s what we’re going for here today, if we do that right, we’ll continue to get by and even thrive, we know!

So that’s our post! We hope y’all agree it’s looking like change for the better, and it’s better for us all. When it comes down to it all, we want to make awesome and super sexy games that our fans know we put all we have into them, and that our community of beWildernauts are as in love with our beWilderverse and how it grows as much as we are. Now, enough from us, go absorb the alterations we have laid out, come ask us any questions or leave any comments you have either here on the page or in the Discord’s special area, we’re here all month and then some. Also, have a super-fine weekend, we’ll be working away to bring you more hot stuff in Lara with details next week, as well as some more S&S before it goes, and the next post in this series: Our Goals for the next 6+ months!

Until then…

Be turned to face the c-c-changes and beWilder!

Post Summary

We’re continuing our changes series of posts this month, before they take effect next month, this time taking a good look at and reformation of our tiers and rewards. Our aims are to refocus our attentions on our games, to make them the most they can be, and to make our tiers more fair to all our supporters, flatting some out in the process too. We’ve improved the wait times between our releases, removed superfluous side content and renewed efforts around our Last Raider comic. It’s important to us to limit distraction from our main content and reinvest that time to our games as much as we can. Like before, we encourage you to leave us feedback, comments and to come discuss these changes with us via our Discord. Next up in our changes posts we’ll be looking at our future vision and the goals for the next 6+ months (until the next review), coming next week.