Reply To: Another Patreon down

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It’s not “weird” when they do have a button where subscribers  from their patreon hub get moved to their new page.

Unless they kill their patreon-account there’s always going to be an option for people to pick which platform they’re going to use to acquire the InfiniteHeroes content.
It will be interesting to see if they do want to move to their own server or keep both options available in the future.

Record companies had one advantage : they were the only ones capable of producing records in volume.
Given that most content is digital that advantage has ceased to exist and they (should be) back to their roots of promoting artists and their content.

The big advantage/disadvantage of digital content is that it doesn’t require a ton of knowledge to distribute (unless you want to control what people can do with your content after you sell it to them … ).

As such platforms will have to find other ways to compete as content creators advance from ‘amateur’ to ‘indy’ or ‘pro’.
Sooner or later a content creator has to decide if the amount of work they need to promote their content is stopping them from creating or selling more content. And thus they need to discover if and when they ‘sell out’.

We’re seeing this with kickstarter/crowdfunding too … Gamefound started as a way for a company to build their own pledgemanager, but it has now evolved into a crowdfunding platform. The digital realm is ever changing and unless you adopt and adapt to those changes you’re going to lose customers.