seeing as I'm only 2 pages left to read to catch up and I'm now having a lazy fit, to answer what others seemingly *assuming here based on 2 pages I gave up reading to catch up on* did not answer yet. short answer: its not about the money FROM the Kickstarter they are primarily seemingly after, its the extra publicity as a means to an end, they want more team members to seemingly do a final push for the end release, Patreon is one of those things that does not get as much publicity as kickstarter. I have used kickstarter and backed a project before, with Kickstarter's site, anyone is free to browse projects active on the site, patreon does not have a similar aspect to the site, so just by putting up a kickstarter, whether it succeeds in the goal of funding or not, you get extra eyes on your project even if you do not succesfully meet your fund raising goal, so just by putting it out there, they get what seems to be their bigger goal of finding more developers/animators/designers to add to the team.
so, to summarize, they're making a Kickstarter with the primary goal being more development team members, secondary goal to be a final funding push to try and pay for those new team members for a big push right before release.
obviously I'm not a part of the dev team, so take what I'm saying with a "grain of salt" however thats what I read into by way of reading the post and what I know about the two prior mentioned sites of Kickstarter and patreon.
