I just know that Patreon seems to be on a wild craze of shutting down accounts and pure censorship of content ,Art or renderings that do not include real people should not fall to censorship ......I get if it was real people then of course banning censor it what ever Im cool with ... but bestiality has been displayed in art for centuries going back to cave paintings. so if a guy or gal wants to drawn a Minotaur or a dragon humping a human female or make a 3d depiction of it, he or she should be able to do so without
some arbitrary BS judgement . and those that don't like it just wont support it instead of ruining it for those that do.... my 2 cents on the matter.
The trouble is, it doesn't matter at all what perverts like us think about their "censorship". Pateron is a public company that must comply with the law of the countries they operate in and the demands of their upstream payment processors.
The only reason there is any significant adult gaming presence on Patreon is because they grandfathered in some of the bigger games (summertime saga etc) and in general they fight to try to keep that money making avenue open.
There was an interesting analysis about patreon I read via Hacker News a while back, which went into detail about why it is such a borderline business. tl;dr: it's all about the small payment amounts - the average supporter is only paying $6 or something per month, and once the money goes to the creator and the payment network, there is like <50 cents left to pay for patreon overheads. and that doesn't cover much time for user support, OR human-in-the-loop reviews of games, handling creator appeals etc. So they tend to rely on anonymous tip-offs about "bad" content. And the definition of "bad" is forced upon them by mastercard/visa - western (US) moral panic about porn. Given all that, it's remarkable that it works at all.
The only real way forward would be some sort of payment system that is outside of all the traditional credit card system - i.e. something like an easy to use "Monero <-> real money" exchange system, and a simple way to make regular monero payments to registered devs. Unfortunately, such a system also enables the truly "bad" stuff like actual real life pedo's or snuff porn or religious extremist funding - so if you build something like that and get any sort of traction, you are going to have the governments of the world chasing after you.
So what's the result? All the games on patreon are either "vanilla" or will be taken down soon. There is one shady eastern-european alternative that has super high charges, bad support, and won't deal with small fish. Some devs try to survive via itchio or whatever. The true fetish stuff is given away for free because there is no way to monetize it.
