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Exactly, it is to support your creator, nobody tells you to do the game, you do it because you want to, if they want to support you or buy it through steam,good , being a patreon has advantages, you have it before anyone else and you receive other things in return . That there is a free version or where people share your work should not be bad. What is not good is to earn money with the work of others. Let's remember this guy is an amateur, not a company. If you really want your game to be accessed only by paying and eliminating the rest, it will go wrong, for that, put it to pay when it is complete and whoever wants to pay € 20-30 for it, that's it. What you cannot do is pretend that everyone pays month after month for an unfinished game that comes out every 5 months and at a price of gold.As a developer in such a niche industry it's gotta be a tightrope between getting customers to pay vs getting maximum exposure to hopefully entice more customers.
How many customers would have first tried it here and decided it was worth supporting via Patreon (hopefully heaps, for all these game developers, not just DPC), but how many people have stopped supporting via Patreon due to thinking they can just get it for free here (I'd like to think the mindset of a typical Patreon supporter is they are happy to assist the developers).
Can you imagine ROCKSTAR charging an average of € 25 every month for the development of its new gta? at least 6-10 years of development xd