YEah I want to believe all devs and trust that when they say they have fallen on hard times or can't work beacuse of "insert reason here" But i've seen so many devs just go awol and keep their patreon charging money while the game hasn't been worked on in years and patreon keeps ticking. Some do have it set to only charge money the month they actually upload something, maybe most do but yeah i've heard some shit from people who forgot they had a sub somewhere and it ticked every month and the dev had not been online for years, sure it's their own stupidity at that point but still.Definitely true. I support very few devs monetarily, mostly b/c SS and Patreon are jerk-face Magoos to me. But I do buy elsewhere (like Itch.io or Steam, still in early access / works in progress) if I feel I can trust the game will actually get finished. I also help with proofreading, some translation, beta testing, etc., to support devs that way. But it's hard to do what feels like throwing money away, so my purchases are limited by a lack of trust as well.