Also, he's not a shill if he's promoting his OWN work. A shill would be another person promoting his work.
You are correct, and it was me who misused that word in the first place. I should have said
hawker or
huckster but both of those sound more pejorative to me, and my original comment wasn't intended to be aggressively negative.
To be fair, the (Llama) mann used to release a public version here every time he updated the game until 1.0. a few weeks after the patron release. If you couldn't make up your mind to support him until then...
That's a reasonable point, and on me for having discovered it fairly recently.
Of people that play these games, I'd guess there are 3 groups; those who say SHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY with little playtime, those that freeload and play these games month after month with no intention of subbing, and those who sub to a game after tasting a few updates on their own.
I'm probably in the third category, I just like to see a few updates to get a feel of a game's trajectory.