Personally, I feel burnt by many dev's I have supported earlier, so I feel very hesitant to support any new developer until they have proven themselves. Not just by delivering a quality game, but also how they communicate and interact with the patrons, as well as having regular, non-milking updates.
I totally agree with you. I will also say sites like Patreon needs to change their rules for game devs. Posting isn't enough. There should be an update per month period or the dev does not get paid. If your boss gives you a project to do and a time line to have it done in. If you miss that timeline you probably don't have a job anymore. This is the Game devs job. There is no difference.
the German translation doesn't work
the translations are not always updated but will catch up at some point
2 years in the past a monthly update was a normal thing for most devs, but then they came up with the "I can make much more content for one update if you give me more time, and some even did that, but most started out with a long one and just pushed out the same lengh they did when it was monthly, sometimes not even that and that went like a wildfire. I have not a single game that does it monthly anymore. Still the content often parely reaches a hour or even half one. Really sad. The worst part is that the pressure seems to still be high for those devs since many put there stuff on hold or just don't do anything for a year and either come up with excuses or say they get depressed over making it (which of course is a serious topic, but come on. Everyone gets it around the same time?)
2 years ago covid19 has started, while "monthly update as a normal thing for most devs" was just distant memory...unless you are speaking of "progress updates", "diaries", sneak peeks, renders, which are monthly thing for many devs even now
