When your financial model is based on a monthly payment, there is absolutely no incentive to deliver a finished project. Quite the opposite unfortunately. If you have a successful project going, you're incentivized to drag it out as long as possible, drip feeding the minimum amount of updates to keep patrons on board while making the least real progress. And due to often well... stupid nature of patreon supporters, you're also incentivized to massively overpromise on a project well outside your capabilities to maximize hype, in a cycle people somehow never stop falling for...
funny thing that author claims one more sequel (to one of those or all of them) called `Conquest and desire`
And annoyingly, the devs are also disincentinized to offer alternative payment options, even though single payment "full purchases" are quick and simple to set up on itch.io. Many of these games I'd gladly pay a flat one-time price for permanent access to latest version of, exactly the same way it works when buying early access games on Steam, but they refuse to make that option available because they are perfectly aware that they will lose the monthly income from the drooling morons on Patreon.
That plus
