the thing is miro has another income, affect3d ontop of the crowdfunding. skudd is apparently complaining that relying entirely on patreon would take "forever" to fund and finish the meru project.
ill prolly cop a mod for this but ill go for it anyway
. surely people are familiar with subverse? funded with 1.6million pounds or closer to 2m USD in todays exchange. they were asking for 100k pounds initially, but that was a cutdown version of their "entire game" where if they hit 150k pounds, that would give you the real full game with all the waifus and planets promised. now initially they offered early access only months after starting in early 2019 then they decided to scrap that idea.. but it wouldnt be until march 2021 years later they would finally let backers play the game oh and also let normies buy it on steam
cos you know they gonna need some extra cashola right? i mean sure they said they only needed 150k to finish the game originally so what did the extra million plus some get their backers?
from what i can see, some extra animations, art assets, backstory/quests for the waifus.. you know fluff stuff. after the 650k tier they ran out of ideas so they just said we will hire more staff. fun. now its almost 2023 you think they're close to finishing? maybe probably i doubt it tho. now i dont recall what they originally said and cant find proof so my bad, i swear they said the game would only take roughly a year then said they would go back to make their "videos" which ofc never happened. so there ya go, look at how much money these muppets got for their project, literally 10x what they initially asked for and its still not finished after 4 years. you want another good example? star citizen. more money more bloat more delays
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Look i get what skudd wants, but its a pipe-dream okay nobody is throwing around mad money to some rando 2d animator on the internet, maybe they should of done the first episode then tried for a kickstarter etc for the "whole season" idea but they would of never gotten close to what they are asking for its just silly. realistically the only chance they have if some oil prince who besides his usual fetish of watching models jerkoff camels and pissing on glass tables hes lying under decides that these movies of meru would complete his life and decides to fund the whole thing.
late edit: srry on wall of text it's just i think people, mostly naive creators, have a massive misunderstanding about the problems of crowdfunding and large amounts of money.