My question is, why do you feel the need to prevent other people from paying for something they OBVIOUSLY want to pay for, just because YOU don't like what's going on? You likely don't pay for it anyway. You're just pissed that he's getting paid. If you don't like it, move along. Why do you, and the other people who block and report people for the same things they're good with getting free, feel the need to ruin other people's livelihood and creation? It's not your business what other people pay for, and they still do.
I'm genuinely sick of ppl abusing others on Patreon and pretty sure he's getting paid from lot of ppl who still haven't realized they should probably stop their subscriptions. So as an old sub and an active member of the Patreon community and game development community yes it's kind of my business to be active around scamming.
For what its worth the subs have been dropping off pretty quickly. But at the end of the day its every individual patrons choice if they want to resub or sub at all. We aren't even sure if the dev is purposefully trying to rip people off, or some crazy life stuff happened. Maybe they are actually hard at work this whole time and just suck at communicating, hell they could be dead for all we know. That being said if some new person looks at it patreon and see there hasn't been a post in 5 months, the dev isn't active anywhere, and their discord is filled with bots spamming crap and they still choose to sub then that's on them and personally I'm not going to feel bad for them.
I absolutely agree, I started to get bored when Dimitrescu appeared.
Not everyone, huh? basically, it's only you US people who do MDY.I forgot that not everyone does month,day,year and I thought for a second I missed something from May, but no just his post from January. So yeah 5 months without a single word from the dev but theyre totally still working on both games
He's already put a lot of work in it, and there's a lot of content to enjoy, even if it's not fully finished. Why does only finished work deserve residuals? If he posts an update tomorrow that just says "And everyone lived happily ever after. The end.", would he deserve it then, in your mind?
"I'm genuinely sick of ppl abusing others on Patreon" ... who says they're being abused? They're adults who subscribed to a service. They're responsible for their own money. It's not your duty to be offended for other people. Keep your nose in your own business. It would be a scam if he did nothing at all and cheated people out of money. When you sponsor these games, you know they might not finish. You know they might drag on. Let's add to this a little, what if he completely finished the story with an ending everyone liked? Would be trying to be some sort of super hero by convincing people to stop paying him now that it's over? You call it a scam, but it isn't. They all signed up knowing how these things work. If they don't stop the subscription, that's on them. You also don't get to decide for everyone else what they do or do not deserve to pay for or when that property should be finished. If YOU don't like it, then YOU go somewhere else. Running your mouth about it, and trying to be some kind of Social Justice Warrior is you enforcing your opinion on everyone else.
"who says they're being abused? They're adults who subscribed to a service. They're responsible for their own money."
No, it's about people minding their own business and stop judging for other people what they think the developers are doing. Just because YOU think they're cheating people, doesn't mean those other people feel cheated. YOU don't get to decide what they do with their money. Again, when you sign up for these games, you ALL know they sometimes stall and don't even finish. If you DON'T know that, you're stupid, brand new, or just plain lying. But you shouldn't be making yourself into a Karen and yelling about people doing wrong. You're treating all of those Patreons as if they're too stupid to hear your TOO IMPORTANT message and warning. Get over yourself, and if you don't like it, don't pay. You probably don't anyway. The people on here that seem to yell the loudest about cheating the Patreon crowd are the people who never pay anything. Because even if he was being paid a single dime and busting his ass, they still feel the devs don't deserve it. That they should all get this stuff free.
.. also, do you get to decide how everyone spends their money? Because you're sooooo much more knowledgeable about what they should and shouldn't buy? For example, Alcohol, tobacco, and McDonlad's are all terrible things to spend your money on. Those three things do nothing but damage in your life. So, do you get to be the one to tell people they can't buy these items? After all, that's cheating by the same definition isn't it? Cars break, Windows crashes, Cell phones need constant updates. We aren't telling everyone not to use those. In fact, here's a giant scam that you probably never even complain about ... Ever use your phone to Wfi call anyone? Ever been told when your signal for your cell phone sucks, use wifi? They don't give you your monthly fee back when that happens do they? Yet, you're using the wifi provided by ANOTHER COMPANY to work the phone you pay to be able to use. Still, people buy them and use them this way without ever telling everyone to stop it.
shhh don't tell people. let them stay mad because they have very little patience. I would get it if it was half a year to a year with no updates but people so invested that even 3 months is already too long in this entitlement age....
