Like a said a page or two back ''money''
they build a naive fanbase with good and proper work, and then they realized that instead of finishing a project and risk a loss of income due to being in between projects, or starting a project that might lose them some support on patreon they should just continue on as long as possible.
And so they just milk the ever-living shit out of this project and aslong as their remain dumb-ass people who fall for their bullshit excuses and keep paying them for virtually NO return on that investment... nothing will change.. and trust me.. the entire industry is drenched in this toxic attitude.. and why not? people are stupid enough to fall for it..
''but they have already finished a project'' - who cares??! that was then, this is now... for more then 8 fucking years...
''But the fanbase keeps demanding new content outside of their main story'' - you think they mind being payed indefinitely? wake up!
''they are working on two projects at once'' - NO!! they are neglecting one and keeping those fans on the backburner but still collecting their money each month...
''You don't pay them, why should they listen to you??'' - stop kidding yourselves... Why would I pay for this bullshit? their greed and slow-ass (or even no-ass) progress is the whole reason I will never pay them again...
anything else??
It might be obvious but I really hate this toxic-ass approach in this entire industry...
You are promising a finished project and THAT is why you are supported by people...
sorry for the ranting guys.. it just really bugs the shit out of me :S
Patronizing(funding)is different from purchasing. In the past, aristocrats generously supplied one or many artists to show their affection for the artist's art, somehow also displaying they were "well-civilized", it wasn't necessarily for aristocrats to expect anything back. Thus, we can never rule out the possibility that there are true loves of devs on Patreon.com; love is blind. Or, they are just showing off their wealth like what aristocrats did in the medieval era. Conclusively, they obtain a very different motivation from those who want to see more content and make it worthwhile.
Unquestionably, such a "virtue" looks unreasonable in a capitalized world. However, this might be the only way for amateurs who can never make their way into the industry to survive. Ideally, people should never pay for something that hasn't been built, many of us would never consider paying for an unfinished game on Steam. However, such a kinky, sexually violent, incestuous game that is full of bestiality, bloody slaughter, and other "horrendous, depraved, grotesque" scenes would never get money from a publisher to release on Steam. None of such games will get investment, this is a "sinful" genre that has been forsaken by the gaming industry.
This is the actual problem, yet there is no solution. If we were able to find a lot of games like this on Steam, most of us would buy the completed games from Steam, who would bother to come here and keep "waiting"?
This is not the world we choose to be in, but this is the only world we have.