- Jul 6, 2021
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what makes it worse is that when you subscribe to someone, patreon takes an 8% cut. Paying a known organisation that is against free speech, and believes in heavy censorship, then people defend this shit by claiming patreon can't take on the credit card companies.Totally agree, just wasted my money in patron keep abandoning games, i am tired of donating in patron,
On patreon developers can take their subscribers for a long ride, without doing anything..its down to the subscriber to realize when they have been had or if they have. On Subscribe star they definitely appear more proactive on protecting the customer. Credit card companies could less about pretty much anything except money laundering or when they are being had, even then they are protected by insurance for pretty much every eventuality. People just like to defend Patreon. I support devs on patreon, but not as much as I used to do, now I reserve that saved money for those devs I like who I can trust to deliver on subscribe star. I will even buy their games on steam while still subscribing to them because I like what they are doing or where they are going with the game. The work they put in etc.
I have said it before, and by no means is every developer on patreon some kind of crook or indecent human being only out to grab your or my money, on the contrary there are some decent human beings on there that have chosen that platform. It's mainly the bad devs that leave a big headache and a sour taste in the back of the throat.
I have no idea about this developer, I have not built up any trust with him, and therefore don't support him financially with a subscription. I cant say if he is genuine or lying about the problems he is facing. I mean that's obviously down for his patrons to believe or not. A benefit of the doubt approach first is a sound idea, but if it happens again and again then the subscribers can just stop subscribing. Some devs will abandon games, when they realize they have lost their patrons and will never get them back, so they will change names, create new games and do it all over a game, just to make a buck or few thousand. As I said most are not like this, but some are, and I know a few that are, but i won't name names because they know full well who they are.