No disrespect because in general i get what you mean and you are right.. but cyan gets 13k a month.. so in the last 9 months (if it was always 13k) he earned 117k for 10 minutes of content.
But he's one person making a game, not several teams worth of people developing a AAA title. It's really not a fair comparison. People are free to support his Patreon, or not. I don't think he's under any obligation to outsource his workload if he doesn't want to, it's his project. Any by the same token nobody is obligated to continue their sub if the content release schedule isn't working for them.
I mean yeah, he is not making an AAA title, but this is a fucking Renpy game. I know good art takes time and he is doing this alone, but Jesus Christ, 9 months of "dev time" for about 7 minutes of gameplay on a VN? He is clearly milking his fans for money.
Don't they all? (the developers of such popular games) Free patreon money really does make things worse in this regard. I know of at least five really good projects that are stalled because... Because patreon subscribers are giving the authors free money anyway. I don't know what to make of that. I mean, the developers are obviously afraid to actually finish their games, because that would surely mean the abrupt loss of their patreon income. And I thought to myself, guys, just finish your game, start another project and milk it for another 10 years. Why are you slowing down your work on the current game when you were actually able to make more updates before and now, for some (obvious) reason, you are slowing down with each update? And then I understood that such a step would mean actually working hard. And so people who were driven by passion in the beginning now just get the money for their unfinished project without any intention to move forward.
Thankfully they don't there are multiple of the highest rated games that you never see anybody claim as "milking"
There are also examples of the opposite. And we're talking about really popular projects that for some reason don't get updates for years (but have a lot of patreon subscribers anyway)
This is a tale as old as time. People pay for all sorts of things and see value where you may not. As long as there's no coercion, what's the harm? People who support him know how to handle their money better than some rando telling them what to do. If they didn't think it's worth their penny, they would hit cancel membership.
That's an exceptionally ignorant statement to make. The fact of the matter is many people don't know how to handle their money, the drive to get people to pay a recurring bill exists because once people start paying that way, they are much less likely to stop, for anyone with any knowledge of business, they are aware of this push for business models to get some sort of recurring payment model going. A recent study showed it boosted sales by up to 200%.
those people arent gullible those are very rich ignorant kids of rich parents from the west, normal person would remember they support someone and send their money because they are doing their own bills and they menage their own things, rich kids got lot of free time they sit on twitter they play games all the time, dont work but get money from their parents
I mean, it's not?
What if I donated on patreon for the full game?
It's not technically "support", you have to buy the game if you want to play it, it's not free
As a man with high testosterone, I prefer Lae'Zel
i agree with you on all things but its a fact its free here on this site, on patreon its not, but this site got benefits of finding needed funds for required work, the problem is that too often the funding grows bigger and the work slows down or abruptly halts, and some simps are just gonna simp no matter what, tho this dev delivered regularly for long time so im like whatever maybe he is on vacation or sick, everyone needs real pussay from time to time and take break from pig ass
The dev had an update that they were indeed sick during/around the month of November with strep throat, tonsillitis, and was even diagnosed with fucking Mono(EBV). So yeah, they had a legit rough go of it.
