【News】March & April Planning (Patreon)

Anyway, here are the key points of the announcement:

1.

As mentioned in previous announcements, due to health conditions and work arrangements, I will also be taking a break in March & April, temporarily pausing updates. During this period, subscribers who were already subscribed before February will not be charged extra.

However, according to Patreon's rules, new subscribers will be charged upon joining. In this case, March & April supporters will be considered as supporting February, and they will receive February's rewards within 1 to 7 days after subscribing (sent via private message). Likewise, if there are any duplicate charges, I will handle refunds separately.

2.

After Patreon’s billing system update, charges now occur one month after subscribing instead of being fixed on the 1st of each month. However, the payment processing system requires confirmation three days in advance. As a result, I noticed that many supporters who were subscribed before February did not get charged as expected, and their payments may have been postponed by a month.

I assume the charges will go through properly on March 1st instead. Since I won’t be updating in March and rewards will still be considered part of February, this doesn’t have much impact. The only difference is that subscribers from before February may receive their rewards a few days later, as I send them out based on the charge list provided by the system.

3.

Although updates are paused, this mainly applies to animations and billing. Subscribers will still have access to any free illustrations or comics I may post from time to time, and they will be available for free download.

Thank you all for your understanding and support!

總之先列一下公告重點：

1.

如同之前幾個月的公告，我由於身體狀況與工作安排等原因，三、四月也會休息、暫停更新。期間，二月之前就處於訂閱狀態的訂閱者不會額外收費。

但根據Patreon的規則，新加入的訂閱者會被收費，此時，三、四月份的贊助者將視同贊助二月份，會在訂閱後1~7日內收到二月份的獎勵（透過私人訊息發送），同樣，如有重複扣款，我會另外處理退款。

2.

Patreon的扣款模式改版後，變成固定於訂閱一個月後才會再次扣款，而非固定於每月1日扣款，但處理金流的系統需要提前三日確認，因此我發現很多二月之前就處於訂閱狀態的贊助者都未能正常扣款，並且可能被往後推遲一個月。

我猜測應該會變成於三月一日才會正常扣款，不過因為三月我暫停更新，獎勵也視同二月，所以其實沒有太多影響，只是二月之前就處於訂閱狀態的贊助者可能會晚幾天才收到獎勵，因為我是根據系統給我的扣款清單進行獎勵寄送。

3.

雖然說是暫停更新，但主要是暫停更新動畫與暫停收費，訂閱者依然可以看到我可能會不定期發表免費的插畫或漫畫，並且會提供訂閱者免費下載。

感謝大家的理解與支持！