>>19703
Eh...I was watching the Patreon post titles pretty damn closely and I never saw these re-uploads take place minus a couple of things. Which is why I never signed up, the ones I wanted in higher res without watermarks just never got posted far as I could tell. Stuff like the Kanaberi image, Metroid stuff, Tomb Raider stuff, the very first D.VA/Mei sets and several others watermarked in smaller res on Pixiv. Now even some of the newer stuff looks like it's missing like the re-posted Tracer set, the newer Gantz set and the 2B Nier set. So what's going on there? Don't even see it in the $30 tier.

I'm going to be honest...my trust in Patreon as a service and the artists who populate it is at an all time low. It's been soured by one too many bad experiences and so having a bunch of "what if's" just doesn't inspire confidence. Like I still don't even know if these files are lossless PNG or lossy JPEG because the description doesn't clarify. I also have no clue what is ACTUALLY available in the $30 tier in terms of zipped files. Is it JUST the current month content zipped or is there a full archive available as well? Are some of the images I described above even included? Are the single images uploaded as file attachments?

That final question is really important because a lot of artists still don't understand that Patreon re-compresses image uploads UNLESS it's a file attachment. Recently they even started re-re-compressing older images to the point where they resemble 30-40% quality JPEG's or worse. That's why I typically don't even pledge anymore unless I know for a fact everything will either be zipped or hosted on some cloud storage service.