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on EP9's release month, I was making like 7K\month at one point and that's gone down to 2.9K\month today. So as you can see, I'm not dragging this thing out because it's good for me.
Because the bottle-neck is he can't render any faster than he is currently.
So with that 10 renders a day number and very roughly 700-800 renders left to do, everyone can maybe get a super optimistic estimate how much longer EP10 is going to be in the works.
Losing subs won't speed up development. It might get the game abandoned if he doesn't have enough subs to cover costs. Depends how much development relies on game income, which I don't know in Az's case.
Anyone who offers
unswerving economic support for a dev is either rich, or really into the project. I don't know anyone who's either. I doubt it's a significant factor in what other devs do, and thus no impact on people who like AVNs.
Most of the devs that make decent money work their ass off. Those who don't produce decent quality, update infrequently and don't communicate will lose subs, without the 'experts' at f95 endlessly moaning about it.
And I don't accept the insinuation that Az isn't doing real honest work. People around f95 label anyone who is slow at development a milker. Milker != slow, it means
deliberately going slow to
gouge Patreons. Az isn't doing the latter, if he could render faster he would, and claw back some of those subs he lost. Same for most of the other slow devs.
The constant moaning certainly has an adverse impact on the devs who are active at f95 at least. Several of them have mentioned how it's killed their mood/motivation etc. Which is one of the reasons most devs disappear from f95 eventually, and means people at f95 who like AVNs have less contact with devs, and mostly only gain insights second hand from subscribers.
Which circles back to my original point. If it's not value for money to you, don't sub. What other people do with their money is their problem, complaining about others supporting devs you wouldn't is pointless & counter productive.