When people access the Early Release BETA version of the game, 2 things happen:
1. People who download the hacked stolen copy experience errors like they did for 0.12 when it was hacked and released on here before it went public.
2. It makes us not want to bother doing any more work on the game when people pirate it. We rely on donations from subscribers. Without those, we cannot afford to work on the game. We have to stop and work on something else to pay our bills.
It's up to you and your conscience. Not judging anyone specifically, but Jamleng and I spent 4 months trying to make these new events the best they could be.
Our subscribers feel ripped off when hackers pirate it and post it here before it is ready for prime time (public release is due Aug 18).
Personally I'll be waiting. It always feels more worthwhile to have the bugfixed version rather than dealing with all the problems that come with the pirated ones that get leaked here.
HOWEVER, seeing how you chose to address the leak I wanna bring this up: why a 1 month delay? You guys are on an extreme of the bell-curve when it comes to devs doing public releases. Most projects that I've seen only make people wait a week or 2 for a public release, hell some like STS only make people wait a day and that guy still rakes in cash.
When you put such a large time-gate in place, some people will want to just take the pirate version. I get being a smaller project you want more benefits for people who are paying you to incentivize/reward them vs us parasites who are too cheap/broke to pay, but I think 1 month is just a counter-productive. Honestly I think time-gates are like DRM: they're there to protect the developers, but the more intrusive they are, the more people will want to break it/pirate it just to avoid the headache.
Putting this in before someone says "just be grateful they're doing a public release and interacting with us at all", I get that and it's nice. But this is a pirate forum for porn games, this would end up here eventually; case and point, we already have a leak. And seeing how they're choosing to interact with us, I want to try and help them and their game to be successful. I genuinely think that removing or weakening barriers of access will help products prosper more in the long term, though I can understand trying to protect your short-term investments to reach the long-term. It's difficult balance to strike, and ultimately not my decision to make, but I figured I'd offer my thoughts regardless.