I had a recent experience where I thread somewhat warily nowdays. About 2 or so years ago the work of LBW was leaked and has been doing the internet rounds regularly with new images added monthly. I thought that these new images represented a single sample of new content sets and LBW library of produced work would be much much larger that what was leaked. Afterall it had been 2 years since the leak. Hence, I decided to join his Patreon at the Gold or whatever level as he supposedly releases new work monthly but moves it to the top tier after one month and it is no longer available in lower tiers (I think this is a deliberate ploy). I paid 100 dollars to join the top tier and to my surprise I saw all of the content that was leaked and some new content representing about a 10-20% increase in his work total production.. I was very dis-appointed and to me it seems that LBW just releases one or two images monthly and then moves them to the higher tier hoping to make money of naive people like me. Invariably new images get leaked monthly.
I'm really sorry to hear about your experience with my patreon. I have almost 2.500 images posted on patreon, and a total of 45 comics/series. So way more stuff than it was leaked 2 years ago (obviously more than 10-20% incerease as you say). You should have contacted me privately on patreon about your situation, instead of getting lost into scrolling through that patreon page, so I could have assembled a zip archive with my entire collection of images to date.
That top tier you're talking about was specifically made to prevent another massive leak like that one from two years ago, because my thinking was that people who pay high prices for something, are less likely to leak/share that stuff with others for free. And apparently it worked so far and hopefully it stays that way. So it was not created to trick anyone, it was simply a precautionary measure. Additionally, everytime I knew I couldn't deliver enough content in a month I simply paused all payments on patreon for that particular month, I even refunded all money to all patrons if the pledge was not fulfilled. So your accusations are a bit hasty, based on assumptions rather than facts.
In my experience, people usually treat artists (yeah, even 3d porn creators are artists) like merchants. They want to pay cheap prices, or rather nothing at all, for as much content as possible. That's not how things work. And when things get leaked you do a huge disservice to those artists since you're cutting off their income source, and eventually they'll abandon their endeavor in search of something else. And I can name a few great artstis in this niche, OGDX and Lexx228 who are on my mind right now, that have either stopped producing or reduced their production rate because of piracy. Then add the Witch Hunt started by Patreon, and very soon you'll add many more to the list, me included.
Again, I'm sorry for your experience. A simple private chat on patreon may have solved or clarified your issue.
Best regards,
LBW