See I feel like complaints directly to the dev or posted in comments on his patreon page were 100% valid and warranted, and its also 100% valid for someone to remove their financial support entirely from the dev, but complaining to patreon management (I assume) in the hopes that they would straighten the dev out and get him to post better updates, just seems incredibly naive and wrecless to me. And if it played out the way Geck 1989 says it did, this complaint to patreon got the whole page shut down because the game had incest in it, and the complaints about no timely updates drew patreon management's attention to the game where as before this it was flying under the radar (UTR). Im guessing that the last thing the complaining patron wanted was for the creator's patreon page to be completely shut down, but they really should have seen this as a possible outcome of their actions. This game like several others I can think of off the top of my head, was hapily flying UTR of the patreon morality police. I assume that anyone that cares enough to donate to a game and complains that they are not getting updates in a timely fashion certainly doesnt want to take away the creators patreon page all together, becasue they want the game development to continue, but rather than getting a more timely update from the dev it is very possible that killed this project for good. Because without the patreon page as income im not sure how motivated the dev will be to continue this at all. I really hope im wrong but thats how I see it.
Oh god, That wall of text is so hard to read.
Right, lets say messages was left for the developer and it went unanswered, what else can be done?
Sure he could have stopped his support and moved on, but he choosed otherwise. What's done is done and if we all had the benefit of hindsight we wouldn't be making mistakes.
I actually see this as a benefit in the long run as him having to move from the ticking time bomb that is Patreon to a somewhat safer SubscriberStar will ensure his support income.
I did a little math with his SubscriberStar members count, even though SubscriberStar membership display is not accurate.
He gets a little over $1000 currently with his SubscriberStar members, like I said SubscriberStar is not accurate.
So I'd say it's 25% off and he is getting $750 from SubscriberStar, even at worst case scenario and it's 50% he is still getting $500.
That was the level he was at on Patreon before it got closed down, so I wouldn't be worried about the development support not being there.
I'd be more concerned about him going back to his old ways as evidence with the silence after the last update.