Predicted this already.
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It is noticeable that old established h devs have undergone a scammy transformation which works by this recipe:
Gain trust by working on a game, make weekly reports, update your product monthly, finish one game at least , even if the game doesn't feel complete (like icstors projects).
Congratulations now you have built the foundation for passive income.
After you established yourself the following steps are ridiculously simple...
Get understanding from your counterpart for all the delays in the future, how ?
You can always use the bag of tricks with these keywords: disease, accident, environmental disasters, mental problems or whatever the main thing is that your supporters have pity for you.
Even now, you should still have something to show, your supporters are already blind, but unfortunately they are still a bit questioning that's why you should give them a update 1 or 2 times a year.
When you have conditioned your supporters in this way absolute submission follows.
From here all doors are open to you the most popular is the one from Icstor still works to this day and is also the most relaxing of all, to prevent the abandoned tag and to replace the few jumped supporters just post some nonsense, for example your dog shit on your pc.
Additional bonus manual for scammy h devs:
Use the zeitgeist, the so-called field power bonus!
For example we are in a pandemic, claim you have been affected by it.
Also we have a semiconductor shortage say your computing power is no longer sufficient because you want to add even more frames to the animations thereby achieve more lively experience for the renderings that's why you need new hardware which is impossible for you to obtain because the scalpers have almost emptied the stock which has skyrocketed prices.
(nonetheless we all know that you're swimming in money, you turned your patreons into zombies so who cares your excuses don't even have to make sense anymore)
In order to consolidate your lies, create a few fake profiles on some platforms of relevance that advertises your games and make sure that someone here and there protects you from legitimate criticism with ridiculous statements like:
"You can only complain about something if you pay for it".
or
"It took Rockstar 8 years to develop RDR2, so this too can take a decade"
you know the drill.
Disclaimer:
Just fun, but as we all know, there is truth in every fun, sometimes more, sometimes less
