Not to mention, they have a point, no one likes censorship. Sure, the dev is entitled to choose what to do with the aforementioned situation (even though there are simple ways around it that many devs have already done), but so are the players entitled to voice their dislike of said decision.
The main reason of me not using
Subscribestar had been explained.
Subscribestar kept me hanging for months.
I had sent them emails as suggested in their page to accelerate my page review and got no responds.
Until today... no answer.
And FYI Subscribestar also has similar rules...
It's just that, they don't seem to enforce it as hard as patreon.
YET. We never know... if they'll change in the future.
Many others has changed.
Look around, similar crowdfunding platforms also forcing the same censorship and rules.
In the other hand Patreon responded to me.
So I decided to use it and abide by their rules.
I understand what you mean by simple.... a patch, probably that's what you mean.
Well it's not that simple...
Here's why:
There were cases where Patreon at the end '
catched' that kind of devs and banned them.
And take away their payout.
Some devs still running on Patreon with patches.
It's their decisions.
Me, I want to be in this game for a long time....
I choose not to break the rules for longevity.
Imagine if you were me...
You spend all this time and money to develop a VN, thingking everything from zero, for months. Literally sitting in front of a computer day and night. Suddenly unknown person reported you to Patreon for having this secret lewd patch distributed.
That easy.
In an instant all of your hardwork dissapear in seconds.
Where will you go?
It's not easy to get approved by a platform.
It's not as easy as making a forum account for sure.
And not all platform has an easy payment method like Patreon.
It's not easy to build a fan base that willing to support me with their hard earned money.
So.. that's the reason with all the censorship and changed.
And I shall give an emoticon
as the closure.
Just in case someone thinking my face looks like this
on my short or long answers.
Well, I do actually. This whole VN game developing is a no social life kind of work. It makes my face looks like