would you support this game on patreon if you could play as female for free? Because I doubt you would.
I don't know. It's fairly unlikely, but it always is. I'm not gonna sit here and say "that depends on the game" like if I love it I'm gonna do it like it's entirely on the game to be worth supporting, and has nothing to do with how miserly I am personally, cause that'd be ridiculous. That's why I phrased it as "hopefully they decide" instead of "hopefully they realize" like it's something obvious that if they do what I want they'll benefit directly and immediately, and shouldn't they know that?
Things like advertisements work within margins of tiny fractions of a percent in terms of visibility vs profit, and I doubt crowdfunded games like this are any different. TS is a super niche market despite its visibility in the realm of NSFW games, and I think by making the game more accessible to people like me who just aren't into it at all would generate more traffic and visibility to them. I have no idea however how that translates into profit, or if they even have access to those statistics through patreon. I think it likely they'd see some increase as a result, but I understand the other side of the coin too. I don't know how effective locked content incentivization is vs early release incentivization, which seems to be the other primary strategy, or if the majority of their backers do so specifically because of this locked content, in which case there is the risk of making them feel slighted.