Biscardone
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That's the core point to me. Yes, Patreon is a system that can be gamed and leveraged to promote, as you said, lazyness and lack of responsibility from authors. At the same time, it allows and incentivizes quality gems of a game like Pale Carnations to exist - because the alternative of a single payment at the end of the production cycle would be untenable.Yet, at the same time, guys like me and GIL wouldn't be able to spend this much time (5 years at this point) working on our passion project. You wouldn't really have the glut of games out there (largely abandoned and unfinished as they are) without it. For better and worse.
So, to me, Patreon is a net positive. Of course, I also advocate cautiousness on the patrons' side: be savvy, inform yourself, get to know the authors if possible, reward only people you think deserve it and so on. But I think the effort is more than worthy in the end, as Pale Carnations proves - just ignore the pile of cruft on the bottom, and aim for the better experiences.