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Good evening everyone! It is with a heavy heart that I come to you now. Unfortunately we have to make several financial changes rather quickly. I want to be completely open about everything, so I am going to try to address all of the points that I feel need to be discussed.
I was discussing finances with Slash recently and he discovered a major source of the financial issues that we have been having are due to the site making 30% less income these past few months than in previous years. This is understandable, as many have noticed the active user count has gone down substantially last year, and many countries are in a pretty bad state economically and people are nervous about spending. There is a lot of concern about the stability of the site with how behind several aspects have become.
We have been working on catching up on these things to try to earn your faith back. We are in the process of more changes to help streamline background productivity (such as getting breeding helpers, the commission panel fees, etc). We know that it won't happen over night, and that many of our changes will also upset the user base. We do not want to disregard your feelings, but please understand that everything we do is to benefit the site in the long run. We have a lot of damage to repair, and it is a very long and tedious process. I personally spend almost every waking moment when I am not at my offline job, investigating options and discussing changes with the staff to keep pushing forward.
That being said, some of the changes we are making are:
- Alidae Egg, Transitional Fossil Egg, and Grand Edit Potion are having their Prediction Payout dropped to $10. When an Egg and a Grand Edit Potion are combined they will pay out $15. Any breedings submitted before Tuesday February 14th at 11:59 pm will not be effected by this pay change.
- Offering different payment options for USD breeding teams.
- Shrinking some of the larger USD breeding teams. (However, if we end up with enough artists taking different payments we won't have to do this!)
- The GCC and MDT teams will be shrunk. If you are on one of these teams and are interested in receiving GP or working out another payment system please pm me, Kaiyo (#489). If there are enough people willing to accept different payments I won't have to shrink them.
- The monthly site contests are going to have the USD pay dropped starting next month. It will still be offered but it will not be the same amount.
I appreciate everyone reading this, and I apologize again for these changes. Many of them will be temporary, such as the artists adjustments. Over time we may be making more adjustments, but we hope that these changes will be enough to cover the expenses, and we may be able to bring on another artist or two with the new payment methods for some of the backed up breeding teams.
If anyone has questions please feel free to ask, send me a PM if you would like, I will try to answer whatever I can. I want to be completely open about this situation, and withholding information does nothing for any of us. However, due to certain restrictions, there is some information that I am not permitted to share.
I do not come to you today with only bad news, however! The Commission Fee Panel is now live! You are now able to pay your own fees, select which ones you pay and when. There is a minimum of $5, so if you don't have that much in owed fees you won't be able to pay it yet!
It will work the same way it currently does in regards to dates, and all fees of the prior month must be paid within one week of the new month. So January must be paid within the first week of February, February within the first week of March, etc. Of course, this month is an exception since the feature is new and did start late, however please make sure January fees are paid quickly!
If you have any questions regarding your fees, please send me a pm! Only ping to the news comments if it is a general question about how something works.
Posted by 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489) on Fri Feb 3, 2017 2:19pm
- 🐼Kaiyo🐼
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:16pm
Hikaru (#15577) I have been trying to add more items that don't require artist payout because I agree 200%! We may be able to add some things with our upcoming changes, we are focusing on giving one of the site features a complete overhaul and it's looking pretty awesome right now. (for once it's not adventure xD) We are actually working on a site overhaul, with new forums and stuff and those vistas are already planned for the new forums.
Detective Butt (#1403) I am glad that you like it! All of my testers absolutely loved it, and it even worked on mobile xD There is also a history part on site so you can see your fee history :3
- Kuro (2Byte)
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:18pm
So wait.. You have to reach $5 in commission panel fees before the payment deadline sets in? Or will you have to get at least $5 fee racked up before the end of the month or it'll be an issue? xD;
- synicals & pluto
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:18pm
hnng i wish i could take GP but i'm using all my comm $ to pay for food. T_T
college is so pricey...
- bd84
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:19pm
*vibrates excitedly that you'd even look into it*
- Aurora
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:22pm
Thank you for being honest with us
- 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489)
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:22pm
Kuro (LLs) (#7746) Before the deadline sets in, I'm not gonna show up on your door and smack you if you owe $2 lmao xD
- Kuro (2Byte)
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:29pm
Okay good, just making sure I don't get the debt smack for $0.50 XD <3
- Tsuyu & Sia ToT
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:34pm
Definitely more items that don't need artist payout (not that I don't pretty much love in a couple of artists pockets already...). But having other options will result in a bigger pull.
- 🐼Kaiyo🐼
(#489)
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Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:36pm
Kuro (LLs) (#7746) Yeah I promise you'll be fine lol.
Tsuyu & Sia {LL} (#774) I think that we will do as suggested and make a think tank for new items, see what everyone can come up with that won't rely on artists.
Posted on: Fri Feb 3, 2017 3:14pm
I'd get nervous about it too. But it's good to be open about it, thanks! :D That does make things better for us than being in the dark, since we're not seeing anything happen even if there are good improvements.