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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
- ☆Liya☆
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:41am
Hah. Awesome =D This may be somethin' to help fund my trip to Montreal! Sankyuu~<3
- Fiery [<3]
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 4:20am
Are you allowed to sell usd credit for gp, like people sell usd items? I.e. advertise I have $50 that I can use to pay towards a commission, and I'd like gp/site items/etc in return?
- Loveless
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 5:22am
I would like to know about the PBC species as well. Do we have to contact the artist before selling?
- Giratina
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 5:44am
Can we somehow have payout in GP or does it have to be usd? (To skip the purchase step for Europeans.)
- Valyria
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 5:57am
since we've mentioned the predict caps - are they being adjusted since the paintbrush payout is changing? For example, PLBC predicts for $4 or 8 GP - with the new 75% paintbrush payout, a bronze PB will pay artists $6 instead of $4 - does that mean we can longer accept bronze PBs for PLBC predicts because they exceed the cap? Or does the cap get adjusted to $6? same goes for anything else that previously had a PB predict ceiling
- Giratina
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 6:53am
Ignore my question I misunderstood a few things uvu"
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 7:01am
Valyria (#509)
I'm not Slash so I can't give a definitive answer but I would bet we just can't pay bronze pbs for plbc predicts now. Since site artists get paid something like 5$ For PLBC and the cap is there to make sure site commissions don't make more than that with predicts (because why should I work for aywas for 5$ when I can do commissions where I choose the prompts for 6$ xD)
I think the cap prices are staying the same but what paintbrushes you use will have to be adjusted because of the changes.
-Kita
- Valyria
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 7:27am
Kita & Riri (#3988) that's sort of screwing people who can't take usd commissions though - ALL PBs pay out too much for painted predicts now - the 4.50 artists will get from a metal PB is over the cap for PMBC and PLBC predicts. Basically predicts become GP or straight USD only - which isn't really a problem I guess? Just worth noting that if the caps aren't changing, PBs can't be used to commission these predicts anymore. I just wanted to verify slash's intentions for predicts
- Alexiel
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Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 7:31am
This is Great!!! I was just thinking about coloring again!
Posted on: Fri Jun 5, 2015 3:34am
What about the ones done through the site? Do we need to contact the site scc artist or pbc artist who did it? (Since sometimes you do not even really talk to the site artists about it.)