Here's the thing, this is a piracy site. Sure, most of us wait for the public release if the dev asks nicely, but it's a courtesy not an obligation, and statistically once you get a certain number of supporters, chances are one of them will leak an update early. The thing is, it doesn't really matter. 90% of people here who would sub to a patreon or subscribestar or whatever will do it because they enjoy the game and think it's worth supporting, not because they get the game early, and the rest were never going to sub anyway, but they might spread it by word of mouth. As others have pointed out, there are plenty of games on here that get their patreon ver leaked every time, and those devs still make money, because they've made a product that people like, and built up trust by making good/regular updates. I've told new devs a bunch of times, it'll probably take at least a year before you see the numbers that you really want. It's such a shame, cause I really liked this game.