I've seen so many devs cave and try to appease their patrons that they actively ruin characters or whole games to change things to how they want them instead of doing what the dev wanted.
Well as the creative mind behind all of it, the creator has to excersise executive authority in terms of what goes and what gives. So that is what i expect of a creator. The vision and the experience are two things and if a customer complaints about the experience, than voting with money is what he must do and choosing NOT TO PARTICIPATE is a valid option. Nonetheless its the creators vision that needs to be realized for a project to have any merit. Whether that inspiration come from the creator, his fans or out of an instant noodle box is irrelevant.
Therefore I find all accusations of him delaying or creating sub-standard updates... ...distasteful and disrespectful.
However, side project back and forth. Compiling source code is NOT base standard for making games it IS the pre-condition for calling something a game and IR forced me to do quality control and enforce THIS pre-condition through personal effort (syntax checking and logical dependencies). That is how i define substandard, banana software isn't a production standard.
A second pledge scheme / project site (pay per content), would free Ptolemy from this charade of making one and a half games for FULL paying customers who desire the half-baked one to come through. If i wanna see IR i am not paying monthly if the game goes out bi-monthly or tri-monthly. But i would throw him 20 bucks every time he makes a content post with an update as long as that update is above average. This will free him from any time pressure and allow him to focus on quality only. AND it gives hm a clear idea on how much dublonas he can spend for each iteration before it becomes an act of love and sweat.
This isn't a family were i will suffer dads toxic cooking just because mom has the afternoon shift 2 days a week and that's how it MUST be.
DoD was nice but did not even qualify as a substitute for IR and neither will his new project. So if i pay him some Solidi in ADVANCE and then receive poor craftsmanship because RL and time constraints i switch to occasional support as well or go back to 'sewer fishing' here.
And i hate going sewer fishing after mom promised to cook for me but had to stay in late...
