I will post the patch about a week, as I usually do.
Available right here on this thread.
Hey, I get it. I understand why people get annoyed.
The other side of the coin being that if I can't make money as a dev the game isn't worth the candle.
This is me trying to find some middle ground.
Your approach is probably the one that turns me off the most when it comes to supporting a dev.
the worst one I would accept is a dev posting the previous version for free when the next version gets released.
sure people will leak for some brownie points here and there.
At the end of the day it's up to you how you do it. Most people though, when they download a game and it's "go to patreon to get the full game" I don't think they actually go to patreon to give you money, to actually play the game properly.
Their first feeling is annoyance and/or anger thinking scumbag dev and they delete the game off their hard drive.
I would bet money that's the most common scenario. The question remains if you snag more subs from having it locked behind a paywall or a secret code, people love to leak games and not provide those, sometimes I think the devs do that on purpose as well. Or from just having a good game that is not restricted in any way up to a week or so early for patreons.
Kinda hard to figure out honestly, you would need 2 of the same game on two different patron accounts and for some reason 50% of people who click on it get one type and the other 50% the other. But even then you would need a larger sample size than the most popular games get to actually get an accurate assessment. So I can only waffle about what I think is what would happen, and I think making the potential customer annoyed and mad isn't the best way.
But with that said. I don't mind waiting for a week. playing a censored version makes absolutely no sense to me. So I'd rather not even know about the existence of a censored version honestly. Keep the previous version uncensored in the op instead.
Again I'm just waffling my opinions here.
