Changes on Patreon

Black Plasma Studios refine Patreon rewards occasionally. Most of them are announced on Patreon itself with a public post everyone can read.

Below is a summarization of those changes that happened in the past.

## Channel and Patreon Rebrand, plus tier rework

Around mid March the Patreon got rebranded to Square Media, as well as the tiers got reopened again, while also announcing the rebrand of the channel.

On April 4th, the new tier rework went into action, where Coal got raised to 2$, Emerald lost Animation appearance, Obsidian got moved to background appearance, and the new tier Bedrock got released. Bedrock is the same as Obsidian in 2020, with foreground appearance and 100$.

## Possible closure of the BPS Patreon in early 2023

Due to the publication of allegations against David R. B. and the studio distancing from them, the BPS Patreon tiers got limited so new people cannot become patron members for BPS until the studio completely closes their Patreon page and rebrands themselves.

There are plans to open a new Patron page or move to another subscription based method.

## Minor late 2022 Changes

The changes made on September 10th, 2022 affected mostly the Obsidian and Emerald tier Patrons positively.

The cap of 24 Emerald Patrons got removed and the cap of Obsidian Patrons got increased to 32 from 16.

Patreon Post (Public)

## 2022 Changes

The changes made on January 11th, 2022 affected mostly the Obsidian tier Patrons.

Mainly the foreground appearance was removed, and Obsidian Patrons are now handled more like Emerald Patrons but with small foreground interactions. The Intro sequence remains unchanged.

Additionally, the cap for Obsidians was lowered to 16 and Emerald also got a cap of 24. With that, Emerald is now impacted by the removal of declined pledges too (see 2021 Changes)

The Early Access Animation was also reverted to one day, as the week long early access was never *"made use of"*.

Patreon Post (Public)

## 2021 Changes

The 2021 Patreon Changes mostly affect only the two highest tiers: Obsidian and Emerald.

While at the end of 2019 Obsidian's Limit was removed, it got reintroduced, capping Obsidians to only 20 people. With that, Obsidians price also got cut in half, now being $50 instead of the usual $100. And because of that, Emerald also got reduced from $30 to $25.

Other changes included the *addition* of **One Week Early Access** and a **Hall of Obsidian** added to *the BPS Website*.

To keep the limit of Obsidians Patrons fair to everyone, BPS will remove (block and unblock) every Patron whose payment is declined after the 15th (as Patreon counts declined Patrons to the cap)

Patreon Post (Public)

## 2019 Changes

Those changes mostly affected the lowest tier on Patreon: Coal.

The Coal tier lost access to the Early Access animations, but gained the access to the Weekly Updates. This was made because BPS realized that the Early Access is kind of a big reward for a $1 tier. In addition, spoilers for Coal patrons are now impossible, as every Patreon has access to the news of every new animation.

Additionally, the BPS Discord got a revamp in the Patreon section. These changes took place on November 7th 2018 (the release of the post)

This includes the addition of a read only chat where Patreon's get pinged for the Weekly Updates and Early Access releases. As well as an Early Access channel, where patrons with that perk can talk about the new animations to not spoil anyone else.

Patreon Post (Public)

## August 8th 2017 Changes

The August 8th, 2017 changes included the *removal of ability* for **Redstone-Patrons** to join the **Songs of War world Server** and the *access* for **Diamond-Patrons** to **raw video files**. At the same time **Iron-Patrons** where *given the permission to join* the **Hypixel guild** and **Emerald-Patrons** where now specified as **Background Characters** while **Obsidian-Patrons** where specified as **foreground**.

Other changes were the *removal* of **asset and scene files**, the **"monthly tutorial request"**, the **creative input**, and **exclusive Obsidian merchandise**

Patreon Post (Patron only)

## BPS Patreon now "Pay Up Front"

Released on November the 5th, 2016, pledges are now up front. Meaning, the pledges need to be paid in advance.
This Change was made due to a high amount of declined pledges.

Patreon Post (Public)

## Unknown Date

Some changes happen out of the order and without a post. Those changes mostly affect everyone positively.

As an example, at the end of 2019, the limit of 20 Obsidian-Patrons got removed.

## References

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