Do you realize that your patreon subscription is $10? Per month. That's $120 a year to play the game with multiplayer, which is incredibly unreasonable for anyone that isn't earnings thousands.I also want to address that:
leaking the game in the week of the release is a dick move that hurts the adult game community.
I believe that the person who did this feels proud of how "fast and helpful they are to the pirate community", but it heavily damages the developers and, in the long run, it damages the community. It's not a side project for me, I'm working on the game full day as a regular job, I'm paying for a lot of third-party services to maintain the game, and I'm paying other people who help me create and maintain content. The main time for me (and other solo developers) to earn money to justify it is the time after the new version release, when the interest in the game peaks. Releasing the pirated game at this time significantly cut my income! And that made me think of ways to prevent it, like making the game impossible to play without an active Patreon subscription. Or maybe closing the Multiplayer and Virtual Playground modes at all to cut the cost of the servers.
I'm trying to do my best to be as open to F95 as possible, I'm listening to the local community, I myself provided the full "leaked" game files previously so you all could have a proper game for free! But as a response, you're just leaking the game in literally the first days of release, putting me in a situation that makes further development questionable. What could I say? Well done.
That is more than any triple A game, ever. And this game has been in development for a while, so you're just using it as a cash cow, and then complain about earnings... on a site used for piracy by many.
I hope you're aware that if you make the game unplayable without patreon, no one is gonna play/show interest in it anymore. There are tons of nsfw games out there that have paid versions, don't do anything to stop it and still make bank. Why? Because people WANT to support it, they're not forced to. I have paid for nsfw games before because I loved them and seen the dedication.
Why should people pay for a "game" that's a glorified rock paper scissors with character creation? Having such a combat system for a game like this is a generational fumble.
Don't even get me started on the use of ai art, that's the moment me and many others have lost much respect for you. How can you as a creator (developer) use such things that hurts other creators (artists)? Don't you have any integrity? You complain about your financial situation, but what about theirs? Would you like it if someone used ai and scraped your game, copied, altered and released it as theirs?