Part of being a patron of the arts or of an artist is to help provide living expenses for the artist(s), allowing them to not have to worry about making ends meet. It is not about purchasing a particular product, it is about being a patron.
Easy solution. Don't be a patron. In the mean time, let those who wish to be patrons, be patrons.
Welp, I do. Actually my last played version was the one in which the mermaid was introduced?
Wow. Such a mature response. Did you learn debate techniques from 2020 politics?
53 here and I echo your statement. We come from a hardier stock I guess.
Completely understand what you are saying but logically when someone is making just about 70k a month to release lackluster updates to a game I can understand why people would be perturbed by that.
This is an indie game that's grown in scope and vision since its inception due to the funding made available. You have to think of each release as what it is: an insider alpha test with a very large pool of testers. Sure, functionally each update serves to keep people interested and funding the game, and that's clearly working. So many AAA or even indie prefunded titles grow in scope and have increased development cycles, but because we're not privy to that until we see a beta or final product, we don't know it happened. Of course, that's changing with all the Early Access releases nowadays that are sold as betas but some of which are indeed alphas, but this has always been sold as an alpha from the beginning. If people sign on not understanding the distinction, then that's on them for misunderstanding not due to false advertising on the developer's part.
It's not an opinion that's literally Patreon's stated business model.
Funny, Eve's story was what endeared me to the game.
No I know that patreon cuts and taxes are taken out. I just don't know the exact amount that goes to DC, therefore I put the info that I can see and do know. That being said, let say $40,000 is what goes to DC. That is still a lot more money per month than a lot of other devs are getting. Some of who deliver content that is longer and better every month. Then what DC is delivering in 6 months.
Are you familiar with how patronage of the arts works? Patronage in the arts involves providing support to artists in order to give them the freedom to create works. As I understand it, Jack Conti first created Patreon in order to help support independent music artists. It's not a tit-for-tat arrangement. The National Endowment for the Arts in the US does not pay for individual works, it pays to allow artists to create. That's what patronage has meant for a long time, even though some patrons in history have expected to receive the works of art. There is no physical works that can be owned exclusively by a patron, so that can't apply here.
Well said.
That was your right as a former patron. If you are not satisfied with an artist, pull your support. For instance, there are a few developers I've removed and others I've brought down to $1 because I no longer felt there were other artists more deserving of my patronage.
Sorry. It comes from catching up and thinking I'm only going to respond to one or two messages. I've combined a lot of them to make fewer entries.
Are they though? SS is not some koikatsu game, all the art and animation is made from scratch. If you have other indie games with that level of quality, please let me know, I'm missing out on some gems.
Yeah there is, it's in Eve's route. You get an option to pick their gender once you reach a certain part in their story.
The vast majority of games on here are getting under $1000 per month on Patreon. So most of them usually have to do this stuff in their spare time, you also are talking about spending 100-200 hours to create content that most people will complete in 2-3 hours at most if they take their time.
