And yeah they are doing it for "free":
let me disagree when after getting this money months go by to just put 1k words and some random pic in the game.
Back in February X made a post talking about all the problems they were having and stated they hoped to have an update for the end of February but apprantly it would only be a small update which would add to the story, that being said the update never happened. But if it had and this was the update they provided I would of said fair enough as their main coder is currently unable to work due to illness however the problem is that the update wasnt feburary but instead march, so I expected that the update would of been bigger and atleast more story driven rather than what i can only really describe as filler.
When someone says it will focus on adding new story content I take that as they will advance the story such as more cheerleader content or add more to the guardian story not, heres a few lines of wearing high heels have fun, not for atleast 2 months worth of work.
Its not even like they dont have the content as X said in the post "new story content which has been ready for release as well", which suggests to me the content has been ready since before 2 months ago.
Overall I still love the story and hope the developers get their act together as I really dont wont this game to get cancelled or end up like other projects where theres 3-4 months between updates. I don't believe the developers are only doing this for the money as they changed their patreon to only take payments when a release is made rather than every month.