whats the problem with subcriptions porn games?lol
all patreons one are that
u look at the tree but not the forest it seems
Now you realize the problem, congratulations.
When you see how a big amount of devs abuse it, yea it sucks ass.
Tiers for Cheats Subscription Tiers for uselessness Tiers for being an idiot they have all the time new ideas how to milk more and more out and Patreon is compliant of this.
Those are the Scum of our Society, you pay for something unfinished horrendous amounts in the END with the RISK it never gets finished.
And this needs to get more into Mass Media as well how this System works and how it manipulates and consumer's awareness strengthened what is happening there and how to detect when something is fishy or get a sense when someone is abusing their good will for supporting someone and make them understand that they finance a business idea not some hungry artist.
But yeah in that case Project Helius is still on the "At least we deliver something really of value" side and that's true but in the end you finance something which is build to bring others into even more dependencies and manipulate them and you as a "supporter" backer now are in this boat, you have been kept in the impression this boat moves another way, but its path changed over and over again getting greedier and greedier over time, because they understood they have control of you now, and they can do everything they want, you will follow (now you are suddenly being manipulated and abused without most probably even suspecting it).
That's a very shadowy side of Patreon this whole abuse which isn't always Scam.
Though the Scam side of it is huge as well, special organized groups abuse it as well where it is never intended to finish anything.
Some people see it as a business platform it was never intended to be that, at least not officially it was marketed as "Support Artists" since a long time it has nothing todo with this anymore.
Subscription Products and Scams are sold as well with the risk entirely on the users side and some things get planned this way (with full intent) to abuse the psychological part of some as much as possible for maximum earning.
Patreon needs heavier regulatory hurdles for this abuse to be successfully countered, especially the organized Scam Groups and their Manipulation Schemes.