Okay, so I just want to rationalize this. The thread for your game on F95 was posted on May. 17, 2021, so im going to assume thats when the game was first released. That was 25 months ago. Your patreon has several membership levels, the lowest that says you get access to the game is $4.50. That means if someone supported this game from the first month, they would have paid you $112.50. Thats around the price of a triple A title. Your own patreon page describes you as programming amateur. Can you please explain to us moochers why this game deserves to be so expensive?
Sure, although the $5 tier says you get access to the game, $1 gets access too, just a few hours after the other tiers. In terms of lifetime support, that's just how Patreon works; it's not like developers can set a lifetime dollar amount and anybody who reaches that then never has to pay again; not only would that be financially devastating, it just wouldn't be practical. This is also a reason I personally prefer Steam: it's a one-time payment, and you get lifetime updates for any game, but most moochers wouldn't even pay the $1.99 if they knew they'd be getting life-time updates.
And what I mean by people being moochers, is people who come on here, get the game for free, yet still feel entitled enough to dictate how the game should be made and how things should be run.
Like I said above, though, that doesn't mean people on here don't serve a purpose. I love hearing feedback from people here; just don't expect me to bend my arm and change the game to something you want for free.
EDIT: Oh, I also should note that I also just had Patreon paused for 9 months while we worked on the rewrite, so I wasn't mooching off people, even though we were working on the game. We also gave Emi - New Beginnings to patreons for free.