If someone only pledges when a release comes out in order to get that release, and then cuts off the pledge as soon as the game is downloaded, that's gaming the system.
you are so righteous man, why you even here, on a pirate site, should you not be appalled?
you very much seem to be telling me what i should do with my money with the "gaming the system" comment, but please continue with the self righteousness. Its fine.
Nope. I'm just describing what you're doing. Not trying to change your methods.
Imagine gatekeeping how people spend their money. The exact same argument can be made for developers who dont provide a fixed update schedule - they are also 'gaming the system' but we both know that is not really true.
so you support every game you play then?
They already said that they dont. It just looks like your typical hypocrite trying to be self righteous.
Imagine paying NOTHING AT ALL! and still play the game from pirate site but telling and judging someone else how they should or should not pay.
That's the exact opposite of what he said.......
How exactly is he being hypocritical or self righteous? He's right in everything he said.
Hypocritical because he is trying to preach despite being on a piracy website and admitting to pirate games. Self righteous because he is judging how others spend their money.
Nope. As I wrote in an earlier post, I can't afford to do that. But I currently support 17 developers at relatively low levels. I have a budget for Patreon and stick to it. I am currently evaluating a few games to support (and two to drop), since my budget will allow for it. There are a bunch of good games out there.
I keep reading that this is a "pirate" website. Correct me if I am wrong but aren't the games on here uploaded by the game developers? And if they are it would seem to me that they (the developers) are providing the games at no charge on a free public forum therefore they are not pirated at all, or am I missing something?
Some developers are active on the forums, upload their own games and use f95zone as a way to get more exposure, community feedback and potentially people willing to support them. But other devs are actively against their games being posted here. And for yet others its a bit of the middle ground, they post here but are still a bit annoyed if their game gets leaked early (i.e. all those patreon versions that drop before public release). Its a pirate site since the last two groups have no control when/if their games get posted.
So what gives you the right to judge how people spend their money? Everyone has a budget including yourself - for some people it is small and that is perfectly fine. If someone can only afford to donate a small amount every few months and have a smaller budget than you do, that does make you better than them.
Generally speaking devs post their games here for exposure. However many devs also follow a release schedule where the game is released earlier for supporters first as a bonus/perk. Some patreons however leak the game earlier than public release and thats where piracy comes into play. I feel quite bad for developers when that happens as most games are free anyway and it negatively impacts the developer's motivation but it is what it is.
Quite often Patrons post updates here. If they didn't, many updates would never appear here.
I believe that you have completely misunderstood the point I was making. The way other people spend their money is strictly their own business. It's not as though they would listen to me anyway. Nor do I know the exact circumstances (when or how much) the person to which I was responding has contributed. So I really can't criticize him personally.
