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You're completely right. But like you said you're preaching to the choir. I wasn't really talking about the validity and effectiveness of criticism on this site to begin with.Neither have I, my thrust has been that people do need to keep in perspective the process of pledges when considering the structure and context of the criticism.
No, but that is the risk THEY are taking and theirs, alone. It is not ours to take on in our criticism of the work. And if a patron decides their pledge enables their need to say something, that is what their subscribers channel on the discord and patreon is for -- their pledge-supported benefit empowers them with direct access to the eyes and ears of the dev team. Here, DC has rarely communicated and this is not his platform for communication and on here no one truly knows if the person criticizing is doing so from their patron-position.
I know I'm preaching to the choir (meaning itsyeboii) on the following, but the millions on this site and the tens of millions across other sites get what we pay for (a free game that everyone has access to directly from the developer) and our criticism should be understood in that way (by us and from us).
All I'm saying is that I don't believe that the majority of people pledge as a "thank you" which sometimes gets thrown around here, nor do I think that those people should be expected to simply pledge as a "thank you", as it goes against the many implications Patreon themselves and DC put on display, not to mention common sense.
That's just something I can't help but expressively disagree with since it doesn't make much sense to me.