Well, I didn't know this dev actually had many more games and some are finished, that's another reason to defend him (or them) then. Anyway, if your goal is to make the best possible living out of your work (as I think we all do), you would rather start independent games and work on the updates in parallel. I don't think Dr.PinkCake is getting supporters for Acting Lessons (great game, by the way, better than Being a DIK), and if he is getting them, he's getting more for being a DIK for sure. After all it's the supporters who understand the underlying idea of patreon: support the artists so they can keep working. But for the devs this is not working good. Maybe they should focus the games as a series instead of a movie, so they can keep earning money without an end for the story in the horizon (though the story itself may lose sense and interest), or maybe the patreon thing should work in a different way. I don't know the solution really. What happens when a dev is earning 15k $ a month? He can yoohoo and enjoy his life or he can subcontract animators, modellers, or simply buy more models and animation on the market so he can work faster... or he can start a small company, or he can start parallel projects... I don't know. What I do know is if you start multiple unfinished projects you can have multiple payments from the same supporter.
It's not.
If you mean something like The Artifact by ICCreatcions, I agree. That game had two sequels, and a spin off which was abandonned due to the Patreon Purge. If you're talking about a game where all story is just abandonned in favour of popular votes for girls, I disagree (that happened to the original Big Brother, several paths were dead ends because of how Patreons voted, and the whole game just devolved into a dumb cliché mess that didn't make fulfill any of the promises of the start). If the game isn't captivating, I'm moving on to the next one, so that's less money for the developper.
Okay, read again what you just said, but slowly. You can't subscribe twice to someone.
No, no. You don't understand. Instead of creating ONE patreon account with 4 projects (3 finished), you create FOUR patreon accounts with 1 project each, all unfinished. With the first option you can get 5000 supporters in one account (for the unfinished project mostly), but in the second you can get 5000 supporters on each account. After all you will get no supporters (or maybe a few) for finished projects, if the underlying idea of a supporter is to help the dev update or finish the project.With the second option same supporters can pay multiple times, with the second option the can not.
I totally agree. Stop supporting him, you can support him again when he updates at a rate you're happy with. A supporter can complain more effectively through the patreon channel, anyway, so I don't see what's the use of all this whinning in the forums. The same way some told me I was the developer using a fake account (for defending him), I could say all these haters are fake accounts from other devs trying to steal supporters. I think both ideas are absurd, but they have the same base.
Ah, I get it now. Instead of making sure you can make this a long term career, by making several games after another over a span of several years, gathering a loyal fanbase, you make several patreon accounts to maximize your profit for the short term, since it's obvious this sort of thing won't survive longer than two to three years. So, the question is, are you willing to make, let's say 2000 dollars a month for updating regularly for several years, or four times 500 dollars a month for barely games (all in v0.2) with only one update a year until people catch on?
Or was it Bob... I just remember him as a sub beta male with a kink to being cucked and dominated
He did say so, a long time ago, and the people he hired have already said they did their part of the job a long time ago as well. And still it just moved to 90% last week (though to be fair, there was no percentage on the update before that 90%).
