When these project(s) were started it was, I suspect, to try to make some extra money with a porn story. The person or people who started it certainly had fun telling a story, but above all they had fun creating 3D graphics with a sexual background. (You can see that this is fun in the many nude pictures by many different painters over the centuries (all just horny guys
).
Over time, the economic aspect has become more and more important. What was (probably) a part-time job at the beginning has become a full-time job.
OceanLab still wants to make good quality erotic pictures and tell an interesting, slowly building story but above all he wants/needs to make money with it. His supporters on Patreon have/wanted to pay him monthly contributions for years.
Then the idea for Steam came! It was announced relatively early on that a Steam release would reach a larger audience and of course make more money. No secret was made of this.
Now the thing is, a company that sells software will not only sell this product once, but many times and will also sell the software to customers twice as an update. That's how it is and no one is bothered by it.
Here the situation is a little different. The supporters on Patreon have also been paying for years for something I call profit optimization, others here call it milking. For me, they paid so that OceanLab had time to perfect its product and then sell it on Steam without getting the corresponding value in return. Of course his supporters also got the publications, but capitalism still has nothing to do with morality.
But before you complain about Ocenlab, one thing should be considered beforehand. OceanLab announced its plan early and it is my duty and my right as a Patreon member to respond accordingly with the amount of my contributions. That's called personal responsibility!
To make it clear again, in my opinion his supporters have a reason to complain that they did not receive the appropriate value for their contributions. If they've come to terms with it, who am I to judge them?
Those who have been stealing OceanLab's product for years and keep getting upset about the milking in this thread, on the other hand, lack any form of self-reflection.
