Wow, just wow.
So Patreon just updated their terms of service and I think just screwed over a lot of people. Normally I don't read terms of service updates unless I find it really important. This time, however, I felt impulsed and found out that you can no longer have raffles as a reward.

Really?

I know a bunch of artists who RELY on raffles as their selling point on Patreon. What the hell are they going to do now? I honestly feel so bad for them. I don't feel good with this update seeing as I just launched a few days ago, but all those other people who have been doing this far longer...man. I just don't know what to say.

Idk, I am just really peeved right now about all this. I really hope good people aren't banned because of this raffle nonsense. Seriously, almost every artist who uses Patreon has raffles :\

Meh...

EDIT

So it has been brought to my attention that apparently this has always been a rule and I guess everyone just ignores it and does raffles anyways? So my plan right now is to do raffles until someone tells me to stop (terms of service implies I'll get a strike) Also a few of you gave me some good ideas for how to get around this by hosting raffles on other sites and stuff like that. The problem being if I get that strike I won't be able to explicitly state in my rewards that I do raffles so I'll just have to tell you guys elsewhere and people will just have to be in the know.

But yeah, thanks for the feedback and ideas :D