How would this team be managed?
It's not exactly an easy thing to implement when it's all done online,
You can't always guarantee that everyone has equal commitment etc,
One could spend all month playing skyrim and just keep saying "yo! Didn't find anything" while assuming that someone else in the team will find errors to report, or that one of the few billion gamers will flag it in a thread somewhere,
Even with a team of testers, hot fixes will still be very much a thing,
And what are the chances of having access to a sex mod savvy workforce within reasonable travelling distances to the 'office'?
It's like people seem to forgot that we're spread across multiple countries and our porno projects are not generally something that we discuss with our neighbours or in the tea room with colleagues at our other workplace,
It's not like it's something that you could advertise for at the local job center either,
Especially when most high earners are having to hide their identity for safety reasons,
TD claimed to have been forced to take extra security measures on his home so its understandable for him not to open a business centre and stand bent over with legs wide open,
So between the risk of shattered privacy and falsified data, no extra benefits would come from having a team of people being paid to play the game before each update is launched
With the number of patrons he have, it is logical that TD should have put an security alarm in her home, seriously there is more money in Turbo house than in a bank branch.
You speak again as if the team were amateur modders and not workers.
This is no longer the amateur projects of 12 years ago
With that budget you put an ad looking for programmers, animators (Have TD hired to any of the animators who make animations for WW? Nor the intention to do it) you find them, you hire a lawyer to redact a contract for them to sign and ready to work, if they do not give results just fired like the others
How many people do you think it would take to do WW? Many games are make for teams with no more 4 persons so ...
And if they can not do a job like that from home, shut down and let's go, that's all.
Who cares about the type of work?
That pays the bills, nobody has to know that you are entering the amounts of money you enter for making a porn mod
We have professionalized the cash income, but not the way of working
Is WW better, for example, than the mods of the pre-Patreon era?
Any dreamer wait to see the word "final" some day in any of the WW updates?
They have really only made it possible that many people do not have access to what was once free, unless some good samaritan spent his money to share it with the others, as happens here by the way
Have you stopped to think people that the donors of this site buy the mods they share with us?