and a middle finger to players who don't care for the incest plot
The games I'm thinking of do not have any intent of a non-incest version. If you don't like incest, don't play incest-based games, whether they're pretending not to be for Patreon's benefit or not. The 'non-incest' versions of those games are literally only present for Patreon.
, also to the players that aren't even aware of a patch floating around,
That's again due to Patreon, because the dev can't mention the patch there, either. Thus the patches are mentioned on developer Discords and sites like this one you're reading right now, which (wonder of wonders) links the incest patch in the OP. Also, once people are familiar with LewdPatcher from one game, they know to look there for other games.
theres tons of other places to host your game that isn't Patreon that doesn't really care like SubscriberStar for example,
Patreon
dwarfs those in terms of revenue. Unless you have a pre-established fanbase (usually
from Patreon in the first place), you aren't making as much money on those platforms as you would on Patreon.
it is lazy writing the "Patreon excuse" is simple that.. an excuse, If the content you're making isn't approved by the platform you're using the wrong platform, You don't go on steam to find porn videos do you? No, because its the wrong platform.
And as we all know, everyone always follows the spirit of every rule. I really don't know why you're defending Patreon here other than that you, personally, dislike incest storylines.
I gave a reason for
why a lot of those games are written that way. You consider it lazy writing, and an excuse. That's fine, but to make a blanket statement like that guarantees you are wrong at least some of the time.
Do you really thing they actually care what content someone hosts?
Yes, or they wouldn't have that rule. And I've seen developers very specifically state that they were not reported, Patreon
explicitly told them they had to change the game or have their account terminated. So your assumptions are simply that... assumptions.