if every single of you could invest even $1 on the projects you like ... once is delivered feel free to be pirates but at least you invested on it.
Balance, If everyone finds one project they like, put 5$ into it every 3 months, then upload it. post it here. Everything would've uptodate builds here. And we still would have an additional ~6-7 million per year in the stuff we like. But for that we need to do it, not just sit there and hope that it happens. We can have both, Money in the projects and piracy.
The art is to support the ones who don't fuck you over no matter how flashy their colors, and ruin those who do.
But getting paid once and being expected to deliver a complete product (you know, the way buying things has worked since the invention of fucking commerce)
You missunderstood what patreon is. You do not "buy a product" because there is no product to be bought. You support development. You sponsor someone to sit in a basement and code so a product can exist in the first place. What you get is a mere shell of a prototype which is nowhere near to being a product.
If you want to buy a product then unfortunately you have to wait until that product exists. That's the same reason you cant play farcry6 right now.
I played a previous build maybe six months ago, and the newest "public"/F95 demo is basically functionally identical.
Thats why a changelog would be nice. Anyway, what are you mad about? Are you angry because he can't code better? You are mad at something you got for free, you could have said no.
Also there was changes. Didnt he implement the sex thing for us? And we don't even back him. How are you still angry?
If I had decided six months ago to be one of the gullible rubes who pays into Patreon scams, I'd be out $30 and have nothing to show for it; whereas I can take those $30 and hit up Steam or Humble Bundle or whatever and up with several complete games with actual content for the same amount.
Which you for one didn't, and for the other know that you are sponsoring a developer, if you not happy with his performance then dont sponsor him. it's as easy as that. take your 5$ and put it somewhere you like. You shape the market, but shape it so it benefits you in the long run. We all have our resaons we pirate, For one we can't afford, for the other we have been burned enough times in the past.
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it anymore, We put our money somewhere, at least for me at the end of every month there is none left, so atleast with that little that we have we have to watch out even more where we put it.
Even if that means buying a legit arduino once in a while instead of just clones. Or buying a licence for that program one has used for over 20 years. Or pressing a donate button on a website i check twice a day. Choose one, that is someone who has the same dream as you, who works on something you want, who isn't some greedy asshole company and support them.
The nice thing about piracy is you don't have to pay. You can just download and play, fuck it, and if its crap then dont care because you didnt get burned. those fools who paid for that crap did.
But if it isn't crap. And its a thing you want to see grow you should consider supporting it, in the scope one can afford, if that means 2$ every other newyear that's ok, who cares. We pirate.
