What type developer that you want to support ?

[AkihiruAdultGame]

Hello, I have a question for you all:

What type of developer would you want to support, such as by subscribing to their Patreon?

Is it important to you if the developer regularly updates the game, if the game has a promising future, or any other factors?

I’d love to hear your opinions!

 

[Mr. MiBo]

Good question. I started creating a game myself, and I'm curious about the users opinions.

 

[woody554]

one who doesn't slip from his schedule and doesn't waste time on side-characters before central story.

 

[Living In A Lewd World]

One, that produces a game with an interesting, well written story with decent 3D-Images that support the story very well and are able to convey moods. The game caters my kinks and avoids my "nogo"s. I personally can wait even for a long time, if it gets visible, that there is progress and the dev communicates regularly to their followers.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

- Is making a game I really enjoy
- Updates regularly and not just "when it's done". Ideally monthly
- Keeps a roadmap for the game and follows it
- Does not DRM their game, I ain't paying for porn with DRM on it even if it's the only way to get it

 

[Count Morado]

Don't ask people on a 'pirate' forum where 95%+ of us have never and will never subscribe. Also, very few people even post in the forum (the average is fewer than 2 post per person --- and look how many posts I and the others on in this thread alone have posted -- I have posted enough for about 5,000 who have never posted). We're very opinionated and are wholly not a proper representative sample of the people you are attempting to attract as subscribers. In fact, I have found the "pirates" on this site to be even more needy, demanding, and critical than the average person who has/does/will subscribe.

You should be making the game you have always wanted to play.
You should be making the game which has the content you enjoy.
You should be making the game that no one else is making - because if they did, you wouldn't need to spend hundreds and maybe thousands (and maybe 10s of thousands of hours) futzing over storyline, dialogue, artwork, code, bugfixes, marketing, customer complaints, etc --- all for no more than $100 per month even after three years of work (that's the mean adult game developer on Patreon ... about 3 in 5 make less than $100 per month).

You may get lucky and score big, making $2000 per month (about 1 in 10) or even $4000 per month (1 in 20) after 3 years.

Best of luck

 

[Doorknob22]

While I'm a developer, I also usually support 3-4 projects. There are two things which are crucial to me:

1. I love the project.
2. I believe in the owner's commitment to execution. I don't sit with a stopwatch and count the minutes between updates, but I want to feel the commitment.

That's it.

Some things which I don't care about at all.

1. Special content. There is no magic in the world, each piece of "special content" is created at the expense of the normal project, the one I am in for.
1.1. Fucking "Christmas Specials". Fuck them.
2. Too frequent status updates. I get it, you're still working on the project. No need to spam my mailbox every week.
3. Too frequent releases. Yes. There is such a thing as "too frequent updates" if they are tiny. I'd rather wait another month for a meatier release than get a 5-10 minute update every month.

 

[NeonSelf]

I've supported a few projects on patreon. Most of them didnt have regular updates, or published roadmap for future updates. I just wanted to thank devs for good games they've created.

1 - The Headmaster - updates are rare, just 2-3 times a year. But I loved the game for what it had already at that point, so I had no feeling of being scammed.

2 - iNSight of you - it was on hold for a long time, before completion. Dev had some personal issues to resolve. Many supporters kept supporting him even knowing that there may be no future update at all.

3 - Hail Dicktator - This one is an exception. Updates are frequent and its been like that as long as I remember.

PS: Unfortunately I cant support my favorite devs anymore because of sanctions. I cant even buy games on steam, which is annoying.

 

[StokkaFilippo]

As a supporter, I prefer to give financial support to developers with a high aesthetic sense and an interesting game.
I don't care about the number of updates.