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Not that I have personally ever complained about a delay - whether I support the dev or not. But everyone has a right to voice their disappointment. Knee-jerk reactions and jumping in on the mob mentality are the downfalls of the internet. But as a patron to a couple other games, just not this one, I feel like I should be able to complain at least a little if I felt the desire too. Not everyone can afford to support every game they like.
But really, you're complaining about people complaining so... there's that.
This. IF a dev acts shifty, nothing wrong with calling that out and as you write, everyone has a right to voice their opinions, whether it's a sensible one or not.
Of course there are always those who will just blindly bash and mistrust a dev, but completely writing any complaints off as " they've no rights because they aren't patreons" is bullshit.
Not the least because most of us know that many members here are also patreon supporters, so it's not clear at all whether someone is or isn't a patreon.
But again even if they aren't doesn't mean their opinion and/or criticism can't still be valid.
On the other hand I do hate complaints about games being late, when there are legible reasons for the delay (because for me mistrusting devs who have constantly, regularly delivered content for more than a year is disgusting and shows more about the people who voice it than the devs themselves) AND when often we are talking about a few days or one or two weeks at most. As if in the larger scheme of things whether it's 4 or 6 weeks makes any difference.