Subtract Patreon cut from it. Subtract taxes from it. Subtract from it 3-4 months of bereavement from it. Not much now, is it?
Also, you should know how many hours of gameplay the next update will be. Over these past few years, Runey's been consistently delivering the same amount (and large quantity) of hours for each update. Pls do your research before talking.
If you are going to be nitpicking details, then fine.
I was lowballing his earnings because the most popular membership deal is $10 a month, so the average could well be higher than $5 a month per member
It also had more members the previous year, so 300k+ would have not been that far off the target.
Patreon cut is 8%, taxes depend on the country and other earnings, but nobody counts net earnings when talking about income. But for the sake of the math let's say there's a 30% effective tax after all the tax brackets are applied.
That's net $200k for one person in 9 months (not even a year).
4 months of bevearement? Not only that's ridiculously long, he could've paused the patreon during the time he didn't do anything with the game. But a dev pausing a patreon is like asking a politician to resign, a pipe dream
I get it, you are all battered wives with Stockholm syndrome suffering from sunk cost, so you feel the need to simp for the dev in case he gets angry and decides to delay the update like all the other successful devs have been doing
