I'm confused. With 130 patrons why would you ever be butthurt a "piracy" place is giving you free marketing and a public place for people actually looking for the genre finding out your stuff and discuss it? I'll never grasp the concept of devs roaming around here acting like this forum isn't doing them any good, and it isn't much better than if did not existed. No one would never have found your game otherwise, let alone play it and much less likely pay for it with the amount of quality AVNs out there. Its much better building a solid fanbase first, share as much as possible of your work so its "out there". The support increase will follow. If you have +100 patrons you can be damn sure its thank the "piracy" forum, and you'd have a lot less if it wasn't here.
Great argument... But do you ever thought if maybe... Perhaps... If we are not so dickheads, his patreon could grow more to incentive him in hire more artist and/or coders to have builds more larger and faster but at the same time maintaining quality? It's an issue that i was wondering if others had the idea of more close to a win to win, i know there's not guarantees but trying could, and i mean hypothetically could, just in time better results and enjoyment than the usual model of thinking that "the dev have XXX patreons, is enough to sustain the project, the dev make public here to get known his project and that's free publicity, he'll be fine". Alright, it's a valid point you remark regarding building a solid fan base, that can be achieved by sharing his work, but that's a double edge sword, that could work pretty fine when the game is new and all support is in a literal sense 0, but there's a moment that growing will become harder, besides, he doesn't need to share himself his work because there's not scarcity of leakers around multiple forums and sites dedicated to share content from game devs on patreon so, you need to rethink what this community can have by exclusive that others doesn't, in my case, well, devs could interact here, in fact many does and are part of this community and moreover they tend to listen and give personal support when they doesn't have to and by the way of thinking of some here, we doesn't deserved it, so, we could make possible to have a better community and help to grow not only the devs patreons but at the same time the community itself by being known as a place where devs gather around a community of "pirates" and they listen his fanbase too in contrast with their patreons, so, what would be the benefit of being a patreon, mostly that they will have first handed the new content as voting for new one, but this community, those that aren't convinced yet to become patreon, those who can afford to pay or those who have restrictions by patreon can have a voice when the content get public in our hands, and accordingly to what this community can provide in ideas about release in contrast to patreon, there could be a chance to get a better product and to grow together.