At current levels of revenue generation, it's ridiculous to consider myself or Sin to be "Greedy". If we were making over $1,000 a month and bitching because it's not $1,500 or $2,000 or $10,000 you would have a very solid argument, and I would agree with you. However, if you look at the Patreon income it's a very low $53 a month and has been stagnant in the $50 - $100 range for several months now.
Games may be free to play due to how common piracy is but they are not now nor have they ever been free to make.
Damaged Goods costs more to produce than it generates in income by about a scale of magnitude. This is without considering labor costs and only considering costs of electricity, assets, and necessary hardware to create renders that is with sin and I working for free as slave labor.
If just 1% of players paid $1 (or $5 if not broke) per month we would be just fine financially. We aren't making those numbers and that is all we want.
Currently, we have about 1,650 renders and 31 animations. You suggest we shouldn't think about getting paid until we have made 100 times that which is 165,000 renders and 3,100 animations (Which would make Damaged Goods the biggest adult game ever made in history by far being over 100 GB download) & you expect us at our current budget with our current team to be able to create 100 times what we created in 2 years time? In order to pull off that task, we need to start a cult and get a team of fanatics behind us also willing to work for free, and we just don't have enough Koolaid for our endgame there.
You are right that we are competing for "Simp Bucks" against pornhub, chaturbate, onlyfans, ect in a very saturated market. To some degree we probably compete with strip clubs, and streetwalkers too. Why should simps spend money on adult VN instead of on one of those? Well, what we do is very different from what they do. We use our brains where they just use their bodies. I get the simps love to be able to tell a girl that would not give them the time of day in real life to stick a finger up her butt while dressed up as wonder woman and that gets them off I really do understand that logic.
In our defense, a computer-generated girl will never get old and become unattractive. Ten years could pass in real time, and Rose wouldn't age a day. You will be able to control who she sleeps with and when. She is smarter than those bimbos, and has more personality. She will always love you even if you are poor or rich. That is why the "3dcg waifu" is far superior to the "cam whore" alternatives. Rose is never going to give you herpes selling you her used bath water, or break your heart, or cheat on you or neglect you. A lot of these girls working on webcams got a boyfriend or a pimp taking a lot of their money. What we make is "Art". What they make is "Porn".
Financially successful games going on hold or being abandoned is not a legitimate excuse as to not support a financially unsuccessful game. That's the same as saying, "What the point in going to the gym? Someone with a gun can just shoot you tough guy." That defeats the whole purpose. Plus that's not us.
And thanks for the PS. We are trying to make a good quality game here. Our level of positive feedback, and reviews does not reflect back in our earnings. We need more people who enjoy the game to step up, and help us keep it going.
Sin suffers financially from making the game, and so do I.
Excessive unpaid work can be very stressful. We look forward to the day when we are just slaves, and not making the game at a loss, but instead making it for free. So that's why it's not really fair to call us "Greedy".