I'm aware that patreon is used in different ways, everything you said is correct. My point still stands that patreon is a middle man for people to support artists, in this case it means the people are giving him money to pay for his product and whatever they get in perks is just extra/his appreciation for funding the game. It's stupid to assume that all the money ONLY goes into perks... It goes into the game, I figure that much is obvious? To believe that that 60k goes into wallpapers and discord roles is ridiculous.
But I digress. To address others point that, in the beginning, the guy pushed out updates with not much money... Duh, those are updates creators make are in the hopes that people will notice the game and give them money... Why else bow to the demands of people if not to garner their support? Looking back at his early patreon he gained a lot of finacial support early on, a few hundred dollars even. He wouldn't have continued if he didn't see that growth
But the other guy doesn't understand, he keeps talking about 'oh if 30k drop he'll still be working on it' when I'm talking about if he had ZERO dollars, the game wouldn't have come as far as it has. It's just true... and no one can seriously delude themselves into thinking the opposite.