Big Changes planned for this Patreon in the next week!

Ahoy Patreons!

I’ll be enacting some significant revamps to this Patreon soon – in time for the ZZZ 2.0 Anniversary, and I thought I’d talk about it with you all before it happens.

A Brief Look Back

I’ve been able to enjoy making mods for you all and the Hoyo modding community at large for nearly 2.5 years now, and over time we’ve been through a lot of ups and downs during the modding process. It’s been the most interesting, challenging and fun job in my career – and so it’s something I’d like to keep doing for as long as it makes sense to do so!

Over the last couple years, we’ve seen changes in a wide variety of things relating to modding these games – changes in the games themselves, changes and improvements to the modding tech, we’ve seen a growing range of gacha games and games that are worth modding. Genshin is a game itself that continues to change and adapt, but facing stiffer and stiffer competition every year, meaning that many of the people playing these games and using these mods have left for greener pastures. ZZZ is also coming to its own as a Hoyo game – undergoing continual revision and changes according to player feedback. Even going so far as to give us generous anniversary rewards!

I myself have been working full time on this Patreon during all that time – in this time I’ve sought and reached out to a number of other talented modders to get help, assistance so that we can do more on this Patreon – that’s been challenging in its own right as I learn the ins and outs of hiring help, and learning about the reliability of people. I’m lucky to have found my assistant Never who’s an excellent partner consistently helping with the packaging and marketing of these mods, as well as with finishing up mods.

The two of us have consistently been putting out mods nearly everyday (and sometimes multiple times a day) over this entire time… I’d have to say, that’d probably make me one of the most active and consistent creators on this platform – no mean feat given how many creators there are!

Even so, the two of us only have so much capacity to create mods for you all – and can’t cover every game that the community wants to play these days, or even the ones I want to mod for.

At this time, we’ve modded for Genshin Impact, Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero, Wuthering Waves and Palworld – of which we continue to mod for the first 3. In truth, I want to mod for a larger variety of games to help secure more interest, but also provide a greater range of content to serve you guys – after all, most people are playing more than 1 or 2 games!

However, the current membership format holds back my ability to branch out more to some degree – setting aside the fact that we’re simply riding the line of what we can put out – the membership tiers based on games means that I feel obligated to continuously support these games all the time. While I plan on continuing to support both Genshin Impact and Zenless Zone Zero as the primary games on this platform (until such time there’s a widely agreed upon successor to them), all Gacha games in general have banner/release periods where we see rerun/double male characters where the content this patreon makes seem less relevant, meaning sign ups dip on this Patreon as players leave/forget about mods for a while!

New Membership Tiers and Revamps

So keeping this in mind, I plan on revamping the membership structure for this Patreon in June with the ZZZ 2.0 Update. For existing Patreons that are currently signed up, nothing changes for you guys – your tiers will be grandfathered, and the benefits you currently enjoy will continue on. The exception is with Star Rail content – I’ll be releasing this content on both Genshin Access and Star Rail Zone Access tier. This is in recognition of the simple fact that Genshin and ZZZ are the games that see the most support, while Star Rail support is more occasional.

For new Patreons, we’ll be retiring Genshin Access and Star Rail Access tier – and replacing them with two new tiers (and renaming one existing one) – Lovely Access, Lewd Access and General Access becomes Lewd Insider Access. The big change up is that any game that we mod for will be supported on all new membership tiers going forward. Instead of game separation, we’ll be tiering the content by level of lewdness – so Lovely Access will provides mods that are skimpy or revealing the nipples, Lewd Access will additionally provide mods that expose the pussy and can include piercings, while Lewd Insider Access will include all of the above and also include mods that show off body internals (pussy/ass gape) or include insertions. Lewd Complete Access will continue as is unchanged – granting subscribers all the content that I create + content from collaborating modding partners.

Worth noting that with Lewd Access – we’ll produce Mega Toggle and Ultimate variants that are compatible with both this tier and the Lewd Insider Access Tier (by removing gapes/insertions from the toggle sets for the Lewd Access version).

Annual Subscription Pass and Benefits

On top of changes to membership tiers, I’ll finally be turning on the annual subscription pass for members. I’ll be adding a discount of 15% to this pass – meaning you essentially get 2 free months a year for members wanting to stick around. This is a big thank you to supporters that have consistently shown up to help support my near daily creation of these mods to the quality I’m happy with!

Existing members can upgrade to annual subscription without losing money/value of their existing Patreon subscriptions as well – Patreon will simply apply the prorata’d remainder of your current subscription month to the new subscription: so if you sign up to a full month on the 15th for $10, and decide to upgrade on the 20th – you’ll get a $8.33 credit to the new subscription.

Sharkcat's Schedule Update & Weekly Newsletter

Hey guys, Never cutting in here! As LewdLad mentioned, we've been making mods almost daily for the past year+, and, well, it's super draining and time consuming as I'd need to take Screenshots, censor Screenshots, do writeups, package the mod, wait for LewdLad to post it, then head over to gamebanana to promote the mod, alongside other sites if I do have the time.

I take it some of you may also have notification fatigue, seeing mods daily or if not, scrolling through Patreon's poorly formatted Posts page to see what mods have been uploaded in the last few days. Some mods, like Single Variant releases, become redundant if a multitoggle comes out that week too, which just clogs up the feed.

So, we've decided, to give ourselves more time to work on more mods, polish them better and include more content, we're gonna move to a 4-day a week posting schedule instead of daily, with the aim of posting about 6-10 mods a week. This will be less mods than currently, but it will be effectively the same amount of content, if not more, as we're simply cutting out redundant, small releases and instead doing bigger releases! We're currently thinking of doing Friday, Saturday, Monday & Wednesday (LL Note: We’ll try to keep this release schedule, but sometimes we’ll need more flexibility and time to prepare the mods – new content/models/meshes/bigger toggles/ultimates/etc).

All this free time will also allow me to do a Newsletter on Sunday, which will review the stuff we've done during the week and include links to all our mods for that week so you don't have to scroll through to find them, update you guys on what's coming in the next week, including any WIP pics! If any game updated that caused mods to break, I'll be giving an update about that here too, including news from the Tool Devs about when the fixes are coming!

I think this is decently important as so far, all the news you guys get from us has purely been the daily mod updates, which I don't think you guys wanna sift through and try to piece together! Alright, back to LewdLad!

More Games, more mods!

With these changes, the goal is to create a more sustainable Patreon that can continue to make content for you all for a long time to come – allowing me to react to changes in the market and supporting a wider variety of games on the side then I’ve previously been able to with the previous tier structure. One of the first new games I’ll planning to support with this change is the upcoming and beautiful Stellar Blade. With a stunning beauty protagonist doing a wide variety of action poses in a fun, hardcore combat system – this game will definitely take advantage of my modelling skills to its best extent!

Anyway, thanks for your time and attention if you’ve made it this far! Cheers :D

TLDR:

Membership Tier revamps:

• Genshin Access been grandfathered (existing members keep same benefits + access to Star rail Mods, no new members allowed).

• Star Rail Zone Access been grandfathered (Renamed to Rail Zone Access, existing members keep same benefits, no new members allowed).

• General Access renamed to Lewd Insider Access. Same benefits as before – provides access to all the mods I make, at all levels of lewdness.

• New tier: Lovely Access – Provides access to any Skimpy and Nipple exposed mods I make.

• New Tier: Lewd Access – Provides access to the above and any Pussy Exposed/Piercings mods that I make. Includes Megatoggles/Ultimate variants with Insertions/Gapes removed.

• Annual Membership Subscription with 15% discount to be added. Existing members that upgrade will be prorated the credit of their existing subscription to the new sub.

• Update Schedule targeting Sat/Mon/Wed/Fri releases.