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After some fiddling around and testing by a core artist team, the big change is finally here! We are opening the market up for artists to take USD commissions for pet designs and HA artwork.
The new Commissions Platform is where artists are permitted to post ads and make transactions for their USD art services. Want to take commissions? Post your ad there! Want to sell a unique design or a set of designs? Post your ad there! How about PSD uses? Go for it! It's available for the USD sale of any derivative artwork made from Aywas pet bases or HAs.
Unlike the Paintbrushes, which essentially charged a 50% fee for taking USD commissions, use of the Commissions Platform only requires a 15% fee of all finalized receipts. Fee Collection days are on the 1st, 7th, 14th, and 21st of the month. The next fee collection day will be on the 14th due to the timing of this release.
A Knowledge Base article has been released with rules regarding using the Commission Platform and a description of the Fee Collection.
It's only natural that artists will start shifting over from Artist Paintbrushes to accepting commissions through the Commission Platform. As a result, we have raised the Paintbrushes payout to 75% of the original price of the brush (for instance, the Gold Paintbrush, which costs $20, will yield $15 payout).
Paintbrushes will still likely be in use by players who cannot use PayPal accounts themselves, and have to buy brushes from other players with GP or services. But they will yield more now, so they won't be entirely phased out by the Commission Platform.
Please note that this change in payment amount may result in some delays with redeeming Paintbrushes initially. Also, please be aware that the description states that Paintbrush information should be sent to account #15 now.
The Terms of Service has been updated to reflect our new rules regarding USD sale of pet designs under the section "USD Sales of Designs By Artists". In addition, we have decided to add a new site-wide rule:
"You agree that you will not spam or send unsolicited advertisement or commercial messages to players through the PM system."
One final note: these changes (the Commission Platform, especially) are going to be in trial period mode for three months. This is a big change and will undoubtedly have a lot of effect on the economy of the game. We reserve the right to remove the Commissions Platform at any time, but we will make our best effort not to do so before the three month trial period is up so we have time to examine the effect it has.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:03am
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:06am
<3
- wirt
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:07am
Eh
- exo
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:08am
I'm wondering how this will effect the MDT and GCC team, but the good news is that if anyone gets kicked off, they can just make a listing in the new USD Sales thread for colorations only, correct? :3 I see this as a good change, so thank you, Slash!
- JAK
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:10am
MDT team is very big so I'm not too concerned that it will be affected. As for the GCC team, talking with a couple GCC artists has yielded that they will still want to take GCC requests because they are prompt based and don't require the stress that a commission does.
- Minerva
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:10am
Wow *3* wish I had time right now, but I'll definitely plan something for summer <3
- exo
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:19am
Thanks, Slash! I was considering making a shop myself there. Think I'm gonna wait until a few more people post listings so I can get a feel of the layout and stuff! I'm excited. This will all be when my health picks back up, of course, so I believe 3 months is very fair. <3
- ~Stronger
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:26am
how's THAT for game changer? ^__^
- Detective Butt
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:31am
I got a request and the details show up twice on the page, just as a note for you Slash, Im taking a screenshot if you want to see what it looks like. Im not sure if this is just an error or something just on my end or what but since its a new feature I thought I would let you know.
- Sharni&Gamzee
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:33am
This make Sharni very happy :3 Now it might be easier to find someone to take on an actual commission instead of all the prompt based services people offer :3
Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 2:05am
Wow this is really cool! Thank you so much Slash!