wow. you are so negative. maybe lewdlab has rl work? maybe family? i don't know. maybe lewdlab has a life apart from creating porn games? maybe the corona virus affected him, or someone close to him? i am not defending his games. all i'm saying is that, there is a reason for everything, and you, most likely, know nothing. and yet you are judging him?
Bringing up Patreon numbers like it's Kickstarter and giving your opinion on how the money should be spent is pointless. Have people forgotten what Patreon is? It is basically a donation/tip jar site, where fans support the creator, not Kickstarter where you expect all your investment to go directly into said project. On Patreon, If the creator wants to use the fan donations towards the project that is their choice but it isn't an obligation.
I'd like to give the benefit of doubt that people who support creators on Patreon know what they are getting into. You don't choose to tip a waitress/waiter then tell them how to spend their tips to be a more efficient waitress/waiter.
I always find this kind of messages either disingenuous or simply stupid.
Look, guys. Some people provide free content for everyone (be it a youtuber, an independent journalist or an amateur game developer) and then ask for financial support to help them keep providing such content. You can contribute if you so want, but you don't get access to his creations only if you donate. Everyone can enjoy them.
Then, there are devs like Lewdlab and many others who only give official access to their content if you become a patron supporter. That is, you can only enjoy their games if you PAY, thus making them professional developers.
I don't give a fuck what patron is supposed to be, I'd rather bear in mind what it's used for in the real world. And, in Lewdlab's case, it's the platform allowing him to exchange his products for a price. It's a platform to do business.
Lewdlab was already making almost $24,000
a month when he made his numbers secret in February 2018. He had 1,900 patrons back then:
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Today, he has 3,050. You do the approximate math.
The most stupid sentence of those messages was probably this one:
On Patreon, If the creator wants to use the fan donations towards the project that is their choice but it isn't an obligation
Not stupid per se, but because of this:
Notice how he even contradicted himself, stating in Goal 2 that he would leave his day job if he ever reached it, but then in Goal 4 he apologized for not providing much content because of his real job (?).
I've said this many times in the Milfy City thread and I'll repeat it here. In my opinion, people like you are nothing but enablers. Your attitude discourages actual hard-working devs, incentivizes trickery and, in general terms, harms this industry enormously.