If the game does not reach the masses, how will he increase the number of his subscribers? This is a common market formula!
Even worse, new patrons don't even get immediate access to the game. Dumbest anti-piracy measures I've ever seen.
ikr? I'd be cool subbing right now if it meant I could play the update. Now, I have no reason to sub because I get nothing...
And the dev should have said no. It's mind boggling that anyone thinks it's a good idea to make people wait 30 days to play a game that they just payed for.
Imagine me going to Steam, buying Balur's Gate 3 or any game, but Steam says there is a 30 day wait period before you can play....
Nope even it's released for $5 and not leaked yet...
It seems to me that we have a hostage crisis here. the current patrons wants to retain the power to decide on the future look and direction in which the game develops. It is known that the author conducts a survey in which, depending on the invested money, you as a patron decide between options, which part of the story will develop, which fetishes will be shown, and the like. So old patrons protect their decision-making power behind a paywall. The author is caught in a trap because he doesn't get new patrons, and the old ones don't care about that, but rather want to maintain their influence by preventing the arrival of new ones. Of course, they tell the author a story about justice and protection of his copyrights.... more money in the game... and that the leaks hurt him the most, although the opposite is probably the case.
I think you're seeing things a little too darkly. He already has almost 200 patrons, although recently he had about 100.
