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The creator keeps responding to comments on their itch.o that its being worked on and that they're having money issues for 2 years now. Wouldn't these money and skeptical problems be solved by actually posting updates to their patreon and getting a decent following?
Easy to say, hard to do. Spending time to work on something with no guarantee of income is a luxury only those with no income issues can afford. Either that or they are insane/idiots/whatever who are literally risking it all, aka being able to live.
So unless the creator here gets a big enough donation that he can relax and afford to devote his time to this project, instead of devoting his time to say, stay alive, I suspect this project is just gonna die with a whimper like all the other projects out there that weren't funded.
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Not if the money that's coming in is even less than the day job. Say the dev went all in to develop fulltime and after half a year of explosive growth, makes like 2k a month. That might still be even less than what they're making now, and that's not counting the 5 months in between of even less income.
Say you want to develop a game part time while still working your day job, right? Well how many hours are you, personally, willing to put in every week? How many dollars an hour would the small monthly income from Patreon amount to, if you were to average it out. Does it make more sense financially to do this than get an actual part time job?
I feel like too many people fail to understand that indie game development, for the most part is unprofitable compared to a conventional job. Like bro, minimum wage generally pays better than trying to make it big with adult game development. Most people don't have the skills, let alone time, to build a large enough following where they could completely replace working a full time job. Say you get $10 hr, 40 hours a week, 4 weeks a month. That's $1,600 before tax deductions. With Patreon, even if you get $1,600 per month, you lose a cut of that to Patreon itself.
Not to mention most minimum wage jobs demand your full attention/time/effort, so by the time you're allowed to go home you're just ready to drop dead onto the bed until the next day where the cycle repeats. It's such a vicious cycle with little chance to break out if you're not willing to literally make yourself feel like you're dying.
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Exactly. And the thing is that you do shittier work when you're tired, stressed, and mentally drained. But some people here think devs should suck it up and soldier through. And when they do do that and have mental or physical health issues, they balk. Like first of all, if you're out here pirating games because you can't afford them, you're in absolutely no position to be giving business advice. Second of all, if a person's physical and mental health is less important to you than your temporary enjoyment, you are a piece of shit and your opinion doesn't matter.