- Feb 3, 2020
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I am always very hesitant in supporting patreons with hidden amount of supporters or earnings.I checked out the Patreon and Discord for this game and the way these are being operated looks strangely insular.
- I may have missed it, but it does not appear the developer reads or posts here at F95.
- Without paying $10 a month on Patreon you can't post on the game's discord. That seems a high bar. I guess it's one way to filter out noise.
- The Patreon has tiers up to $200 a month! For what appears to be a one-developer game in Tech-Demo stage of completion? I guess the dev is praying there are incredibly gullible people with buckets of money?
I am thankful that apparently a Patron is posting game versions here, but overall the situation with this game looks to my eye like a shot at Cashgrab Abandonware.
Hope I'm mistaken, and I'm curious if anyone has a different interpretation of the situation or knows more.
First I pirate a copy and then I'll support it if I like it, but it also depends on what the dev is already making. There are some woefully under supported good projects and some overpaid jackasses coasting by with minimal effort. The way I see it you hide your supporters if you are afraid people are thinking you are getting too much money already. ATM I support like 15 devs, but none with fully hidden info, feels too scammy for me, also I don't support anything that makes more than 20k a month.
About these super expensive tiers I don't really care. If somebody wants to pay that much sure go ahead, most makers offer things like custom renders or some influence in the project, here you get absolutely nothing. I don't really care about tiers as I just give what I think a dev deserves and pirate it anyway. You can also go for a custom amount.
I don't think it is meant to be a Cashgrab/Abandonware but it might end up that way anyway. The cave is nice and all but I don't really see this fleshing out anytime soon, some serious additions have to be made to give this game some replayability. Temptation to slow down and keep collecting might become too much.