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While I do agree with this, I'd like to add that right now is a really weird time for amateur game development, and the precedents of the past may not be as useful for predicting the present as they used to be.I'm not calling this dev a milker, far from it. I truly believe that he'll finish the game. But I've seen devs pause Patreon payments and string people along about development, then eventually disappear, more than once. The only thing one should read into pausing payment is that this dev at least isn't an outright money-grabber.
Basically, a disproportionate number of porn game devs seem to be based in Russia/Ukraine/that general area, which means the recent situation there has been causing a lot of issues for a lot of people. Right now if a previously communicative dev seems to disappear or otherwise start missing updates, I'm less likely to assume they're milking and more likely to wonder if they might be from that part of the world. So I'm a bit more lenient and willing to cut devs slack today than I would have been a year ago.
Which is not to say that every dev can use that excuse.