Ok so NTR Waifu was delayed twice after one of the other games slipped!!! This is what shits me about these devs that work on multiple games at once!!! Really just a bad look and makes me think about how Patreon IS just rewarding bad behavior!!! And before you have a crack I did actually Patreon this dev, because I was interested in what the other games were like. And was not impressed!!! Cancelled right after playing them.
Really why create 3 (crap) games instead of 1 (one) good game
Because you're right. Patreon rewards milking subscribers, or at the very least it doesn't punish them for it.
Same reason you see hundreds of "remakes" when they're 5 versions in.
But the vast majority of Patreon
games exists just to milk money.
Hell the cunt that ruined Breeding Season (HBomb) is still making $300 a month, somehow, and he hasn't posted on Patreon since 2024.
And the artist from Breeding Season is still milking his own game, Cloud Meadow, and making 20k a month. SINCE 2016!
And the game has barely progressed from what was created in that first year!
(sorry, got distracted. Back to the point)
The more "forgiving" reasons are: They run out of ideas/writers block/burn out.
Because they come in with no plan beyond the concept, and wing it from there.
I would say they need to learn from traditional writing, where you storyboard the plot out: How does it Begin? What are the Core plot points? And How does it End?
But they don't care about making a story, or about progressing a game: They only care about making a quick buck.