[...] there seems to be an aversive approach when it comes to members who ask for patreon/subscribestar content before it's publicly released. They're either ignored, or just told to wait until its fully released, or just subscribe and get it yourself.
There's different issues here.
Firstly, some devs are more respected than others, because more respectable. And the part of their fan base who can't afford to spend money to support them still want the game to continue, and therefore enforce a delay between the release and the leak.
It can also come from the patrons themselves, since it's them who leaks the game. There's surely some uploaders who are patron for some games, but most of the time they just uploads from an archive/link gave to them by a member.
What lead to the second point, one can not upload a game that haven't been leaked. Therefore, asking for an upload is at least useless, because those things do not happen magically. And like the number of privateers grow slower than the number of members and the number of devs, most games can only be uploaded when the public version is finally released, because no one here is pledging for them.
Thirdly, as
Winterfire said, there's also the upload queue. There's around 30 games released each day, to what you've to add the assets, animations and comics. In the end, it's probably something like 70 uploads that have to be done each day, by a handful of motivated volunteers that still have a life in top of this.
And finally there's the fourth point, beta version Vs final version.
I never seen the interest in playing, and even less leaking, an update that you know as being incomplete and possibly bugged. It's disrespectful whatever the point of view.
Disrespectful for the game, that will looks less good than it actually is. Disrespectful for the players, that will either have to play an update twice, or deal with the induced result of the bugs present in the beta version. And disrespectful for the dev, that you're supposed to like since beta versions are rarely public, because you make him/her looks like a fool who make a bugged/inconsistent game.
In the end, it's not the fact to ask for a leak that is frowned at, but the version asked and/or the way it's done.
Asking for a leak will not make it magically happen, and even less instantly happen. If really you can't live knowing that a game have been released since more than two seconds, act as a responsible adult, and pledge for the dev. Because if his game have such effect on you, he deserve it.
