Question About Supporting My Work

[Heisa]

Hey everyone,

I wanted to ask the community how they would feel about me opening a Patreon page as an entirely optional way for people to further support the development of GoS:RL Lite and other future projects I will be doing and releasing on GoS.
So I'm writing this topic to see what the community thinks before doing that.

Over the years, a few generous people have had asked me if there was a way to further support my work outside of just buying it here and I have politely declined these offers. That being said, times change and I've been thinking about opening a page as a way for people support the time spent on everything.

To be very clear: nothing major will ever be moved away from GoS. The project, updates, discussions, support, and the actual work would still remain here.
You would not really be buying anything special. It's mostly for helping fund the work. 

Right now my rough idea is to have simple tiers:

• $3 Support - A basic support tier. You help fund development and keep the project and any future work going.
• $5 Backer - Supporter tier + occasional dev updates and dev-blog posts / behind-the-scenes notes.
• $10 Sponsor - Backer tier + your name in the credits/supporter list if you want, plus extra attention and consideration for a personal feature or different project requests.
• $25 Big Supporter - Same perks as Sponsor, mainly for people who want to support more.
• $50 Grifted Supporter - Joke/support tier at this point. Same perks, no extra obligations. For legends, and suspiciously generous people, haha.

About feature requests:

Sponsors and above could submit feature requests that get extra attention and consideration, but this would not guarantee that every request gets added. Features would still have to make sense for GoS:RL Lite for example.
And very importantly, this will NOT take away from regular users who simply bought it  and have requested a feature. 

I might also share small devblog posts or behind-the-scenes notes/screenshot/videos there, but at the time I'm writing this post I'm not sure yet if those would contain anything that the forum would not eventually see too. Possibly other projects I might be secretly working on to be released on GoS, but I don't want to split the community.

So. This will be mostly for people who already wanted to support the work entirely voluntarily!  And please share your thoughts/opinions.

How would you feel about this kind of Patreon/support page? And if you have any other ideas, let me know!

Thanks for reading.

Edited yesterday at 12:46 AM by Heisa

[Ruger44]

That would be great, your work over the years has always been excellent and it would be nice to contribute even a little bit more if possible

[Rodrighinni]

I'm down to help Heisa. I know it's not easy to do what you do, and maybe it will also give you an extra motivation to work towards this! Just do it 😉 you deserve it

[aniffo1]

Actually, a great Idea, all the work you've put into GoS: RL, especially in the last 1.5/2 years with v4 and now eac, you, in my opinion, deserve extra support from the Community.  (No disrespect meant to Feretorix or other devs working for GoS )
Some behind-the-scenes videos/screenshots, as you mentioned, would be really Cool.

Edited 21 hours ago by aniffo1
some improvisation

[muraioshino]

You absolutely deserve additional support.
For all your dedication, the headaches, the thought, and your kindness.
It will be a pleasure to contribute. 

[krisbyy]

I would be up for that aswell 🙂

Keep the good work running

[Aristo]

#HEISAFOREVER 

[Poptart]

What's the price to work along with you 👀🫢

[7W3N7Y]

Hey,

I just wanted to say that I would personally be very happy to see a Patreon or any optional support page for GoS:RL Lite and your future projects.

I’ve been using your work for years now, and for the last few days I’ve actually been wondering how I could help or support the project more, because it’s clearly something that has brought value to me for a long time.

As long as the core project, updates, support, and community discussions remain here like you said, I don’t see any issue with it at all. If anything, I think it’s a good and fair way for people who already appreciate your work to contribute more voluntarily.

I also really like the way you presented it: no paywall for important features, no split in the community, no pressure, just a way to support the time and effort behind the work.

The tier ideas sound reasonable to me. The only thing I would personally be careful with is the feature request part, just to make sure it stays clear that it’s extra consideration and not paid priority that could frustrate regular users. But from what you wrote, it already sounds like you’re aware of that and want to handle it fairly.

One small suggestion though: alongside Patreon, it could also be nice to have an option for a one-time donation, for people who want to support the project freely without committing to a monthly subscription.

Some people may not want another recurring payment, but would still gladly send something from time to time when they can. I think having both options would make the support system more flexible and accessible.

For me, I would definitely prefer seeing the project supported in a healthy way rather than seeing the developer burn out or lose motivation over time.

So yes, from my side: I fully support the idea.
Thanks for all the work you’ve done over the years.