I don't give them money because they post a bunch of blueball updates, get my hopes up, then abandon the moment I send so much as a single dollar in their direction.
Did you by chance throw money at Sylphine, WVM, or Offcuts? If so, I'd like to have a word with you in this dark alley over here.
Most games/devs that get on this site do NOT deliver and then many of the ones that DO deliver, fuck off the moment the money hits a certain level because that's all they wanted.
Developer of Unleashed and the developer of Sylphine spring to mind immediately when I read that.
Unleashed developer made a few hundred per month and the updates were consistent. Once he hit around 900 per month, every single release date was delayed at the minimum 6 times and a year past the original release date. Never stopped the per month payments. He keeps making release dates but still has not kept one. Think we are now up to 7. Wanna see how long this can go.
The developer of Sylphine has had a different medical excuse each and every month for almost 2 years. Never stopped those payments. Before the money got to where he wanted it the updates were pretty consistent. He doesn't even give release dates. He just gives a medical problem at the beginning of each month then fucks off until the next month.
Bluecat tried to do it but I guess his supporters were wiser. Seeing how most have fled. Guess those former supporters found something better, like almost anything else.
They think they'll milk cash forever, and it'll disappear if they finish their games except that's not how it works.
That is true. Since I've been here since 2017, not my main account, I've seen lots of developers worry about finishing their game and having their patrons jump ship so they either make a second game to draw in more people and make the first game take longer, or they draw out the game with needless and filler updates until it becomes so boring that people jump ship anyway.
10+ dollars per MONTH for an unfinished game that will take over a year to complete. Yeah, no. I can get completed games for 10 or 20 bucks.
I bought The Witcher 3 complete edition on Ps4 in 2021 for $9.99. I spent close to 200 hours in it and still had not finished the game. Why the fuck would someone pay 10 per month for 2 years for 1 update that lasted maybe an hour?
If you have spent hundreds without getting anything, you are no longer supporting the development of the game, you are supporting the developer so he can pay his bills for all the stuff he bought with your money.
So why should individual people be expected to keep shelling out monthly after they already stuck five, ten, twenty bucks in the cookie jar when it's not even done all the way?
The people that keep supporting Bluecat are not doing it because Bluecat gives out great updates or because of his hilarious posts on discord about banning people that call him out on his bullshit. Its simple for why they stay. Sunk-cost fallacy. They have sunk hundreds into it and now they think that they have to see it through to the end. The best example of sunk-cost is you buy a movie ticket, go sit down, about 30 minutes into the movie you see that it sucks, but you payed for the ticket so you might as well stay.
That is why people are still paying. They've payed this much they might as well stay till the end of the movie.
