Patreon is not capitalism. It's basically monthly tip/gratuity service site. It has been hi-jacked and misused by certain devs (not DC) to gate their game behind, but this is never what the site was intended for. But since patreon rakes in the money they don't seem to care about this. True Capitalism is paying ONCE for a game like you do from gamestop or steam. Having said that, it's not a healthy model or something you should revel in, even in the case of Summertime saga. If Dark Cookie only got his money released upon fulfilling the tech update OR this was a fixed price game, you'd have had the update months ago for sure. It's a shitty model for gaming that rewards laziness. He's literally incentivized to go as slow as possible and if, for example, 90% of ppl decided to stop donating, he'd likely drop the game outright and never update it. I'd rather it cost $60 then free, because updates would be faster to bring in new players.
So tried of people saying "It's free, so stfu". Not the point. People like to gaslight and pretend he hasn't made absolute bank. He's over compensated for what the game is. The ppl complaining are valid, supporter or not. Nothing against the creator personally, but he's not immune from the effects of a badly designed, ill-adapted monetary support system that completely favors the devs/people working on the game and in turn the supporters get shafted of value. THIS is why it's taking so long.
