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That's really not the issue here... Patreon is totally voluntary, if a person doesn't want to support the dev they can stop their support. The only people that it bothers are mostly people that have never supported the dev to begin with and just feel envious that someone is making money and not them, and they just need to take it out on someone in some way such as moaning about milking. If you think about it reasonably, if you are not the one paying then what do you care, and if you are, you are free to stop your support. It's that simple.One way to take pressure off yourself is to pause Patreon payments as long as you have enough savings to do so. And work on the game for free for a while.
If the dev has been working on the game he deserves the money (not to mention he lost a lot of Patreons throughout the 2 years of not releasing anything as is). The real question is if there really is content or if this is another case like Polarity and Perverted Hotel where the devs posted pictures of their 'work' and promised updates but ultimately it turned out there was no update since both devs weren't actually doing anything more than making pictures to post occasionally. Whether or not the dev turnes off payments doesn't matter since for those who are supporters they can turn off their payments themselves, and for those who are not it doesn't make any difference either way. As long as the dev produces something that would be great. If it turns out people here were being led on for 2+ years hoping for an update for none to come, now that would suck, and whether payments are on or off at this point wouldn't change that.