Well, anyone who supports developers on Patreon is basically gifting money to them. Expecting a refund is quite naive. If you trusted some developer on Patreon and gave him money, and later that developer told his patrons to go fuck themselves, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
You know this kind of does not really make sense on what you are saying because, What you are saying is if you are "gifting" Dev's money on patreon and expecting a refund is naive. You are half right there, see Patreon is about supporting a Creator's Hobby and to motivate them or at least that is what we are supposed to believe.But the fact is a lot of creators specially the ones that make H Games do NOT do this for support a "Hobby" majority do this for a living or to earn some money on the side meaning a second job and in effect are not doing a hobby but a job. Because at the end of the day it comes down to 2 things if you want to play it "legitimately". You want the game ? You must become a patreon. You want to play the update every month you must have a pledge of 15+ so as to avoid a leak making creator lose money and in turn ( note not all of em and just making a general comparison here) get's their panties up a bunch.
If this is done as a hobby then the rules of patreon state you must hide spicy stuff behind a $1 paywall which is fine, but you would put the release of every update also on a 1$ paywall and or upload it to a website like this yourself, However when you are not doing that and are looking to make money then you put it high up there to get as much money which means you are putting a game out there and are making promises, if you can or can't keep em that is your fault as a creator and people are allowed to be skeptical and pissed about it if you stab em in the back.
For example games on Kickstarter ( or similar websites ) who started out with the promise of release on steam and ended up going epic exclusive ( no matter the intention or excuse ) and broke their promise deserved all the backlash they got and the faith their fans had in them being shattered is by any and all means warranted, so how is that any different from this ? From a Technical point of view one you would say those are 2 different situations and things however the fact is, both made a promise and both broke em, both are doing it out of sheer profit and not because of a hobby and good will. Dont even get me started on Kickstarters that got 5+ times their goals and abandoned their projects after.
Anyways, The point I am trying to make here is. The reason patreon is setup for is not what it is being used for so that money for some of those creators isnt a "gift" it is based on a promise.
Expecting refunds definitly is being naive true, The fact however you saying and I quote " later that developer told his patrons to go fuck themselves, you have nobody to blame but yourself. " Also very true. So expecting people to be angry mad and distrusted and very wary of that same Dev is all warranted as they have proven they cannot be trusted.
I will give this "Completed" Version a try however for those who say well at least we got a completed version of a 3Diddly game so gotta admit it feels good or whatever... WRONG, if the "completion" is merely a rushed end or a shitty end or a end just put a completed on the back of it while leaving many questions out it is STILL INCOMPLETE period and with that being said does not prove shit. Like most people though ill see how things turn out, his skills are proven I have no doubt in that, it's his weak stand on criticism and not being able to stay on point with long projects that have proven to be quite lacking. So in his case time will tell.
