"But I’d like to think that you all pledged because of the work and passion we put into our game every month, no matter what the game is.
MrDotsl"
I don't think so. People don't pledge "because of the work and passion we put into our game" or because they think MrDots is a nice guy, or whatever, but mostly because they like the game, the theme, the models, etc. There are TONS of devs right now that put a lot of work and passion into their games and don´t find even the 10 % of the support MrDots has found, just because their games don't hit the "correct key" (name if correct fetish, correct models, correct MC or whatever)
I think that, if MrDots doesn´t continue DMD and starts a new game with other fetishes, models, etc, he will find most of his patrons leave him for good, and probably he knows it. Right now, there are a lot of new devs and a lot of competence for patrons. I think he will not want to kill the "hen of the golden eggs" that is DMD and will try to continue with it, finding another way to monetize it.