I still follow WL and think it's one (if not only) at least possible project. They are not that bad like PH tbh
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Wild life has had a bit of feature creep, which is fairly understandable when a small project blows up a bit more than expected, and they've also decided against releasing their campaign piecemeal but they still make a lot of the content they're using for the campaign available in the editor and give frequent and detailed development updates which are even accessible to those who aren't currently subbed.
It's pretty much the epitome of how these crowd funded projects should be run. You know what's really fucked up though?
I know Helius' subs will drop like a rock in a month or so, presuming they don't get the update live just in time for the 1st to encourage users to resub, but based on historic trends it'll still rank higher than a genuine project which really makes me wonder how reliant Patreon is on users just forgetting their subs.
Just to really drive home the disparity, because I'm sad and I find this fascinating,
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Not only does Helius give updates less frequently but the differences in detail are astounding. Just vaguely describing how everything has been released and is super duper hunkydory despite the game... not actually working. At all. Just a sneaky little "server maintenance ongoing" line added to the very bottom to suggest that none of it actually worked and everything is still offline several weeks later.