Finally! I don´t know how many pages back I wrote that even the nice and patient ones have a breaking point and that gumdrop has tio be careful, because once you annoyed the patient persons, that backlash is not good and regaining lost trust is very difficult.
The real patrons of gumdrop had already been extremly patient in the face of constant lies, broken promises and deadlines. He has used up the goodwill.
I think he got too cocky about how often you can sugercoat blatant lies and idiotic excuses. And his last one is among the most idiotic. A broken deadline (after he strained goodwill to the max with his earlier ones) because of two "missing/incomplete" animations? Send out the update and patch it later, would have been the correct action. With this he would have regained a bit of trust after all the lies and stuff. But now? A bridge, eh a lie too far, it seems.
What do you consider a "real" patreon? Doubt the level of heat you find in this thread reflect the commentary field on his patreon page. For some random joe that "just" discovered his game, they won't necessary know much about its history or background. You can find this game plastered all over internet. And now even on steam, which open up for a whole other crowd that doesn't necessary frequent sites such as this. And looking at early access games and such on steam, some of them been in the works for many years. So, some people just used to such and doesn't question it much. It doesn't make it right, but when it come to it, people in this regard is almost a endless resource.
Just look at these social games, mobile games and such with their p2w mechanics etc. They are based on a swing door mentality of players being a endless resource. Take them for as much as you can while they last, because there will always be someone new replace the ones leaving. All the while focus on the big whales.
Shame he haven't been as focused on get his game done, as he is on bring in support to it. In that regard I guess a lot of creators out there could learn a thing or two.
