thanks for the spoiler, I'd be fucking pissed if I had to pay money for such an empty update.
And where would he host that game you genius? These sites have huge traffic, so great amounts of people lay eyes on the games. Why do these sites have such huge traffic? Because there are loads of games here for free.
It would still be on here just 1month later? F95 doesn't only host pirated games. You wouldn't even be missing out on anything you'd still get one update a month. If only the public release was on here he would get more patrons trying to get the new version early. We all pirate stuff but just stop trying to pretend you're doing a good thing by pirating a free game when you're obviously not.
It's complicated. Sometimes the marketing on a niche game doesn't do enough to offset the costs of the lost high end patrons that don't sign up for a month, or sign up at a lower tier. F95 absolutely brings people to the table, but it's never a simple pro or con. The game itself is free, the early releases are not. They'll show up here eventually most times well before the public release, and devs often go too far in trying to go to war here. Fact is, the longer that a game takes to leak here, especially when it's only available for higher tier patrons, the better the chance they have of making some cash.
but he gets his money, no one leaves him, no matter what day his game is here
devs have shown time and time again that's not even remotely true. in a subscription model, the billing goes out at a certain time of the month, but the early release is tiered. if it's leaked before certain tiers have access, those tiers can unsubscribe, play the leak, and get their money back for a reason like "unfulfilled content"
Just talk to devs, see how much a difference a day or two can make for revenues in a month when dramatically fewer high end patrons sign up, or accounts upgrade. I also didn't say more marketing hurts, read it carefully. I was speaking f95 as a whole, it is great for getting the project out there, but early leaks can hurt revenues. Both things are true.
Not exactly. Most patreon subscriptions have you pay immediately for the month, if you drop your tier, you are still subscribed for that month. In theory, one could try to cancel via Patreon itself, but that is likely to blacklist them with the subscription they are trying to get in the future. But say you signed up for $1 a month and want to play the new release. If it hasn't leaked here, there is a good chance you will consider upping your pledge for at least the month.
brace yourself for some guys saying "its here *patreon link*". but its not here for now. 1 month to free version. will need a little patience unfortunately.
Honestly, who is shaming anyone? People read way too much into posts saying they don't want to share because the dev asked them not to.
