I didn't call you dumb... I'm a politically correct person... I said assuming EVERYONE here (not specifically me) is a pirate is a sign of an underprivileged cognition. Of course, if we call a pirate everyone who ever downloaded, played, watched, listened, or whatever one can do with an unofficial bootlegged product, I bet 99% of the human race who consume those products are pirates. But the sense of your proposition was that everyone in this site always pirates everything and never consumes everything, thus my argument was bogus -- which, by the way, independently of me (or everyone else in this site) being a pirate or not, is, in fact, the bogus argument since it was an ad hominem one.
But I agree with you. No one owes anyone fuck all except when bound by a contract or when the government puts a gun in your head and demands you do. If you want to buy something you do; if you don't, you don't. The seller is owed if you bought; if you didn't, he's not. In the case of subscriptions, you pay for it as long as you are happy to; when you're not, you stop. In the case of Patreon, what you're owed is what's written in the contract -- in those little boxes called "tiers." Of course, every developer is interested in people keeping their subscriptions and in more people subscribing, thus, he does many things for this to happen, but when he doesn't feel it's gonna happen, he may quit at will and is only obliged to deliver what was written in the contract -- the tiers... Simple as that.
Now... Calling every developer who abandons his game when it's not profitable a milker is what I see mostly around here. Even developers like this one who was earning less than a grand each month, which, in most of the world is nothing. Even developers like this one who -- even though I don't follow every update and, in fact, just played this game two or three times --, doing the math, since there are 26 changelogs here and there are about three years of development, excluding the first one, which was the zero point, and a hotfix, has delivered an update with an average interval of a month and half (36 / 24)... Wow... Quite a milker... Doing this for 200 bucks. If everyone who does that is a milker, I think the oceans will overflow not because of any climate change but due to the amount of milk that's spilled there...
