I'm just guessing here, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the payments don't go through immediately due to international banking issues, and so they aren't counted in the Patreon numbers until they clear. Because I think it would be weird for someone to cancel at the end of the month, and then sign up a few days later. Especially if the Patreon is set to charge immediately when signing up.
I got curious and looked at the top adult games. Dark cookie is summertime saga? How the hell does he have 18k subs? He has 3x the subs but only 25% more income. Icstor must average considerably more per sub. I still cannot believe dark cookie is #3 of all Patreon accounts. Icstor is 5th but he should be higher than dark. Amazing that 2 of the top 5 accounts produce so little content. Yet top the money board.
SummertimeSaga is basically a free game and nobody is "forced" to pledge to play it, while DC offers some other incentives to higher tier patreons. That's why DC has a lot of patreons who pledge $1, because they either like the game or want to download it from his own server, etc.
Excellent reply. Very informative about the whole P set up. To my thinking, both are free effectively as the wait time is short. I wonder how much of a factor it is to have what people consider is a secure source. I know a lot of people who are afraid to download anything off of sites like this. I saw that Icstor's 100 tier was sold out. That is amazing that people want to give 100 a month to one of these games. I understand supporting a YouTuber at that level because I think it is harder to do. Not that I would, but I understand that support more because you are buying the person in essence. It is more personal. From memory, DC did not have a lot of content. I think Milfy has more content and certainly higher quality. I like the artwork but it is pretty basic. Icstor's renders are top of the class.
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Um, have you read literally any thread in this forum? It's 99% bitching between, "Today's update was great. Anyway, when's the next update?"
That isn't entirely inaccurate, but this is the Lord God King Most High of gripe threads.
lol i just watched that too
That wouldn't be feasible. The money they get in the preceding months is to fund the actual work. It's not like they're getting a bunch of investors onboard for a product released in a year.
Not even a option. What you call "patreon bulshit" is what pays for the games being done in the first place, usually by the team of a handfull of people or a lot less (lot of games here on F95 have a developer team made of one).
