Actually he sells it on steam too so he gets both a release paycheck and a monthly lol. I'm one of the ones that dont support monthly but do buy the game on steam haha.
I'll buy the game for an AAA price on Steam when DPC finishes it. I've been burned too many times by preorders, early access, kickstarter etc over the last decade to buy any game before it's done ever again. I follow the development of BADIK because it interests me, but I have doubts that DPC will finish the game. At his current rate, the game won't be complete until 2029-2030 as we still have 7 more episodes to go (that's 7 more years at current dev time). We are moving into Star Citizen levels of delays.
I do believe solo devs deserve support to help take their projects to completion, so those patreons that have only 50 to 100 backers, support them if you think they have the stuff to make a decent game. But DPC has fully financed BaDIK many MANY times over. It's fully backed, it doesn't need any more money. When he completes it, I'll buy it. Until then, I'll follow its development as it's quite the entertaining journey so far.