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If Patreon could ever match Steam then it could be a problem. But when it comes to finance, well, let's just say Patreon brings in some small change for devs compared to Steam.
Check Oppai-Man! They have 7500 paid members on Patreon and earn around $35K there, meanwhile they just sold more than 1 million copies of Freshwomen - Season 1 on Steam. Even if they sold all those with a 50% discount there, that would still mean around $6M. We're talking about a 170 months of CURRENT Patreon money and it's just Season 1. They also only released it on Steam in August 2022 so 16 months after it's initial Patreon release. And not all the people bought the game on a sale, with full price it'd be more like $13M so the truth is somewhere in between. The game is being developed for less than 3 years and is only on Steam for less than 18 months. Can't even compare the two platforms.
On Patreon one has to intentionally search for a game or a dev to become a supporter. On Steam, the game will reach hundreds of thousands of people just by it's recommendation system. I've found out about AVNs on Steam by accident, wouldn't even know the genre existed if not for that platform yet I bought many games and have about another 40+ on my wishlist.
If I could give one advice to any devs, especially to my favoorite ones, I'd only tell them to immediately release a demo or the first few episodes of their games for free on Steam! It takes some investments and also one has to care about marketing too but it's well worth it! That way people could try it for free, wouldn't even need to bother with refunds if they didn't like it (for slow burn, story-focused games two hours of playtime sometimes isn't enough to get a good picture of the game so the refund window could easily become too small). And if they did like it, well, they most likely will buy the rest just like I do.
Even GOG is a thousand times bigger opportunity for devs than Patreon by the way.
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And you haven't seen Piper yet... Word of advice? Don't go looking for it
Yeah it's really bad. I'm glad some folks here like the new models and hope they support the dev so the game keeps going but, as someone who subs on SS for time to time, I can't really play the Steam version. I think all 3 new models look really bad.
I just saw it, Holy fucking shit
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Yeah it's not looking good nothing on Patreon,SS or Discord. Was a post 1/29 wanting to know if he's around and still alive no response to it
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It really has great potential ...Great things take time though
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things will change if there'll be next version and if dev stops doing dbl work on update.
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no but if this continues and he will do steam and patreon versions then i'll be surprised.
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They put the game on Steam, then they immediately abandoned the game
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cause girls looked too young to steam's approval so he had to remake whole game.They put the game on Steam, then they immediately abandoned the game
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They put the game on Steam, then they immediately abandoned the game
Shame the new models look so crap, was enjoying this game.
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His last post on Patreon was August 2023 he has no public posts, if you have something from discord or game status please post it Thanks
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just here. 18 months of no updates or 3 months radiosilence = abandoned at f95.
Well, by any sensible definition that's abandoned. I think a lot of times it's too slow to give the tag - like when there's no update but the dev posts just pictures or other bullshit on Patreon or elsewhere. IIRC that's why the no updates in 18 months no matter what was added, because of douchewads like Icstor.