The good thing about Crypto currency is that its difficult to trace. So its less likely to become an issue, however it still creates a barrier for entry. So yeah, I'll probably give them a try when I launch my project, but my hopes aren't high. I'll probably have a dual presence between there and Patreon.
Honestly this should be fine so long as you don't draw attention to it. I can't stress enough, Patreon isn't paying someone to spend a few hours playing through your content. It's an inefficient use of their resources to begin with, and more importantly, if they were, then there would be far more cases of games being shut down. Don't put it on your page and there's no reason that Patreon will know unless some crusader decides to report you. In your case they have nothing to report, so you should be good... unless the thoughts include images that would be incest, then you've essentially done the deed. It's not like you can make the argument that it didn't actually happen because they're already censoring fiction.
Well if you're trying to sell content then you should also be trying not to arbitrarily piss people off. Make the content optional like several developers already have. No prude who plays your game is going out of their way if they didn't have to experience something they didn't want to.
Sure but Patreon doesn't work like that. Fetishes they find disturbing or barely legal can't exist at all within their site. Teacher's Pet is an example - removed incest and mind control. It all depends on a reviewer but is probably just a matter of time for every developer. Who knows how market will change due to these rules
The industry wont change at all. That was my point. People have gotten lazy with Patreon being such a convenient way to get funding for nothing. If anything I think this is a good thing as it means that it is harder for the Patron bait guys, who throw together a couple of half arsed Renders and a few lines of dialogue in Ren'py and expect to be paid for it.
In mainstream gaming that's for sure. But when it comes to adult games whole west doesn't have much more options outside of Patreon. So every change in Patreon's rules affects whole industry as there is no alternative right now. It's not like we have real market like Japan. If Patreon doesn't want something it will push most developers to start projects without such an elements or to hide them using outer sources. Some change will come as everything is changing sooner or later and Patreon games now looks much different than even year ago.
Don't know for big brother, but the version of Dreams of Desire you find here is not the version you can find on Patreon. It's a community patched version which restore the incest content. The game on Patreon is 100% incest free and probably also just have the gentle path with each girls.
Please put all information found in the thread, not just the automatic response, this is what Boom said so far:
I'm gonna guess you haven't actually been on the site then. There's only a handful that have been caught, most of them are very high profile, and the content was advertised on their patreon. The only way things go wrong is if a user reports you. Patreon isn't going to jump through the legal hoops and spend the money to have someone review your game's content. They rely on the report system, just like every other user submitted content site.
