It's cute that you think you lost patreons because you made it free, but that's not the case, you lost them because with every update, this game gets worse and worse. Almost every new version fucks the save games, the story is more and more idiotic, and it gets more of a meticulous grindfest every time. If there are haters, they aren't that because they want everything to become free, they hate it because the game fucking sucks. Period.