thats COMPLETLY wrong. An oversimplifying
You might want to finish this.
1- i never said donation is a business transaction. i said that without those donations, the game would never be made.
Which is absolute horse shit based on the fact that the game was first presented for free, it was based on preliminary work that DC was doing and if it didn't get popular, DC might have done something else. As I said, you're putting the cart before the horse that this specific VN wouldn't be made. DC put out a product, people gave money but that has nothing to do with the story DC is creating. You're essentially confusing what DC is monetizing for the masses as well as the ideas he puts into the game now that it has Patrons.
2- They dont have to obtain any monetary gain to be considered a kind of stakeholder, since the entire planning of the game will be around what is important for the donnors, DC treats them as a kidna os takeholders. And he already have said that.
Business and economics has very specific terms. A stakeholder has a stake in the company and last I checked, Kompas isn't a publicly traded company on the stock market where you buy shares. If you really want to die on this hill, be my guest but if you're going to criticize me for "oversimplification" when my last sentence points out how face palm worthy your argument is, expect me to really point out how you're butchering these economic terms with nonsense in return.
3- Is there a way for a business like that to work without apeasing its "investors" so they can keep investing in it? is that even viable in a stituation like that and considering that he might have to move fro patreon?
Donations are not investments. That's the point I'm making and you're butchering economics with tortured arguments with no understanding of business.
And yes, businesses can have a product that they sell that's more attuned to one specific group of people over another.
For games, a lot of F2P models are more attuned to gamers than publishers who are publicly traded like EA and Activision.
For other forms of business, co-ops are more viable than LLCs because they're more attuned to their communities than a private business that answers stakeholders and moves out of communities for lower wages. I can go on, but the point is made that your rebuttal here really misses the mark.
4- Of course ppl can write stories without getting payed. but that isnt the case here. DC already mentioned that if hthe donations sudenly stop at one point, he will continue it alone, but he wont have any help since he wants it to be done properly and not paying some1 for helping him ( implying they would have to work for free) would probably go against that idea.
You're moving the goal posts here. If you already acknowledge the story can be made for free (but would probably take longer) then I really can't go against this since that's exactly what I'm saying. The POINT is that you're confusing his donations with him being creative and creating a story and that's two things entirely. People don't get paid for everything they produce.
A student in RenPy is probably not going to make millions with their first few games. And if DC didn't have good artwork and a decent story in mind, it's doubtful he'd find a community that would want to support him. Even now, this isn't viable for every adult game artist, nor does every one of them make the money deserve.
And that's the point I'm making. Your argument needs quite a lot of duck butter and takes a LOT of things for granted which doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The original assumptions are highly illogical which is why I made the 4 arguments to point out the most egregious issues with them.
In regards to the original argument, I would agree that DC's episodic content isn't to everyone's liking. Hell, I skipped this most recent one for number 15 because it's quite monotonous. I just wouldn't use the arguments you did for the reasons given up above.
