The main thing is that he doesn’t abandon it, I wouldn’t be surprised if he does. He worked hard for 3 months so that the game would be leaked here less than a day after release for high patreons(10$). I understand that everyone wants to play right away and doesn’t care . But there are developers who don't deserve it. There are few of them, Hnstudy is one of them. I understand when milkers games are leaked. But I don’t understand this one here. Show fucking respect guys. This Game is really worth it.
Honestly? Days gate is a absolutely stupid idea. It punishes supporters while incentive leaks to non pantreons.
For the dev it's not bad at all, as he set the tone "look, if you like my work, you have to pay X to get it from day 1, because that's what I said I am worth and you should pay me" meanwhile it also promotes leaking, which is simply free advertisement which is essential to spread awareness, and thus increase revenue as a whole. Heck may even trigger emotional guilty into people to become his supporter on a lower tier, if they can't effort the price that he set, so it's more revenue as a whole.
The only people who gets the short stick and get kinda screwed, are his supporters whom will pay less than X which he demanded and are not going to get it for free.
Besides, it's not likely if someone else didn't leak, the dev would have 100% guarantee conversion rate into the tier sale, that's simply delusional. In the real world, what would happen would be, less awareness, thus less support. One cannot support what it does not know it exist.
Honestly, Patreon is a terrible system overall.
The best way to think about it is, it's DONATION system, where you'll give to people who you like, that's the best approach possible.