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He has a stable well paid prestigious job and a career, making adult games is just a hobby. He'd be a complete idiot to throw that career and stable income away for something as unstable and risky as making adult indie games. Making games is not like chopping wood, a job with a stable quaranteed amount of output and income, especially if that depends on something as unstable as adult game market and Patreon donation system. Imagine hitting a creative block and being unable to continue the story you started for a few months or maybe longer? Imagine ending one game and not having anything to write about to start a new one?If he has a day job he's stupid. If he kept consistent updates coming he'd easily be earning over 4k a month. After-tax that's over 40k a year. But it'd be EVEN MORE since he could focus on marketing, have more time to push updates out faster or make them bigger, and thus would likely earn 60-100k. So let me correct the statement you quoted as I'm gonna believe you that he has a day job. "It is his DUTY to put out updates for the people paying his lazy ass >3k a month)". Better?
Too many unreliable circumstances to count on to bet the livelyhood of your family on it. I know I woudn't make that bet, unless I had a really shitty job with minimum wage and no career. A gambler or a kid who has no family or career to care about, might. Same goes for a retired person who has no day job any more.
Currently only a few talented game developers here have been lucky enough to be able to have it as a full time job that pays off well enough, at least temporarily. And even they can't be sure that they will keep being that lucky a year or two from now. Maybe their previous jobs weren't that well paid, stable and prestigious or maybe they didn't like those jobs well enough to keep them. So they probably thought that even if making games won't pay that well any more, they would be able to find a new job at least as good as the one they had before.
A janitor, a bus driver, possibly a cachier at a mall, a freelancer journalist could pull that off. A dentist, teacher, lawyer, a small business owner - not so much.
And I believe I remember this correctly, that he is in fact a lawyer. So it probably pays better than making adult indie games ever could (let's say, as an average over a 5 year period) and it's not a career that can be put on hold for a few years and then continue from the same spot later on.
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