It's true.
Patreon demands access to the developer's social media, such as discord.
If there's "bad" content on discord, the project can be banned.
Patreon's rules include NO LINKS TO BAD SITES.
This also includes f95, so when people post leaks here...they're actually threatening the game's existence since Patreon is watching this thread.
It's insane, but they have agreements with discord that allow this.
this is partially correct but also so wrong in so many levels. I'm not trying to defend patreon, but you make it sound like discord "allowed" patreon to demand access to dev's discord.
Some dev's discords give different patreon tier access to different channels, you can't easily verifier that without having your patreon account linked to the discord. This was supposed to HELP the developers so discord allows accounts to be linked with patreon. You can also link your discord account to many many other websites and there is NOTHING wrong about that.
people leaking to F95 also won't cause developers any harm UNLESS they are releasing Patreon unapproved materials and those stuff get leaked on F95 now that could cause some trouble. Say if the developer directly support or work on an incest mod of the game and Patreon find out about that, they gonna talk.
But leaking an "approved" game to F95 would cause them no problems.
You can hate patreon all you want, I dont like it either because it bans hypno and stuff but you leave F95 and discord alone please.
P.S. patreon is not the only platform that has this "no direct links to 18+ sites", this rule has been there on different platforms, twitch, tiktok etc, for awhile