It is 1k where I live, and I can still live with 1300$
That is, also having to pay for public transport and all that.
Honestly tho: Your job is online, quite literally, nothing attaches you to your place other than having to move everything and maybe friends or wahtever, but if you live somewhere expensive go live somewhere less expensive. I can't cause I would have to take hours of public transports or more than an hour of car travel, but they can do it perfectly.
This ain't at all about "not being able to live with that money", it's about living comfortably with no changes or effort.
I like the game and all, and I support creators here and there, whenever I can. Maybe I pledge for a month, then take it back when I need it for my life stuff...This doesn't mean I don't think 90% of patreon creators are quite lazy and milking people for their money. I work 40 hours a week to pull minimum wage. They probably work 10-20 hours a week to pull, in this case, 1.3k each, but some creators pull about 10k each and deliver literally no content. Wanna tell me art takes time? Programming takes time? Doe, I have both programmer and artist friends. That's bullshit, sometimes you can get stuck in programming, yeah, but you can fix it in a few hours. If all creators were to spend certain amount of time(Not even a full shift, just a half shift) of about 6 hours daily 5 days a week, they would be pulling games faster than you could play them. The art, though, does take some basic time. BUT, it doesn't take nowhere as much as they make people believe it does. If you guys get any artist friends you'll know this; Not even "good good good" art takes more than a week for each doodle if you dedicate time to it, and this ain't even full art, it's Renders most of the time. If you look at the files, the body is in pieces so it can be put in the game without redrawing the character everytime. (Some art is a full pic, tho, but that's because it has no variations.)
They are not interested in developing that fast, because they can just keep going with a slow as fuck updated game and people will keep paying.