It's probably unfair to abandon patreon based on this game to be honest, there were always red flags with the lack of communication, transparency, and a track record of 'The Simbro Team', even when Marune was the known face of the team (was there ever anyone else until Marune left?).
It's possible to work with the system and support good creators but I think people just need to be more critical in evaluating who they give money to, no matter how much they like the initial game.
Take for example
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making Summertime Saga, a guy in his thirties (with industry experience he claims with credibility considering the quality of his work), who has kids, and who streams almost every day is a good candidate based on the fact he simply sounds stable. You know he can manage a project and he's not a teenager who's going to go off the rails when he gets big money.
Or
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which is almost an indy game studio. They are very transparent, you can see the team in a video, you can play a demo and see the quality, you know they are a real team of several people with skills and experience. Funding a team like this will likely mean higher quality because they will hire people with specialist skills and increase the likellihood of a finished game being delivered.
There are other creators who are making high quality content and getting very little money. Meanwhile, some supporters throw money at wasters like whoever controls Simbro these days, or other idiots who they know nothing about, with no history of delivered projects, with no apparent skills - creators who are churning out a few basic low-quality CG images a month for a poorly written VN.
Obviously I'm just venting a bit here at this point so I'll stop, basically I'd like to give most Patreon supporters a slap in the face and this is not the forum to do it.
