What part of this is not true?
"
it will only be available for PatreonsTier3 and MembersPremium"
- Vermelion Discord
I'm sure you took the time to look up Golden Novels Patreon Tiers.
So if it's only for PatreonsTier3 and MembersPremium that is a $7 Tier. Unless new images or audio are added the final translation is in scripts.rpa, a file that can be swapped without dealing with the media files.
Compressed and uncompressed version is
NOT the same.
Compression by design strips information out to save space or did you think the 5 Gigs was just junk? Audio and Image quality is reduced to achieve this and some people would prefer to simply get the better version even if it's larger in size.
New update available on itch.io is not that hard to post either.
If he's afraid that Patreon will pull the game because it has incest then he should really look into diversifying by adding other crowdfunding platforms like SubscribeStar.
To be honest though it looks like they are likely using copyrighted music without permission as there should be a bit in About about Artists used even if they are free tracks not even mentioning the tracks from other commercial sources, stripping the Ren'Py legal notice likely is a violation of various copyrighted intellectual works of Ren'Py Tom and code he used, Koikatsu while they say developers can use their art a legal notice saying they do I believe is also required, and while people don't generally think of it smaller assets like Harold’s Fonts likely also needs a legal notice. There is a reason many real game developers have a longer About Section than "I'm the sole guy that makes this" as a lot of people behind the scenes went into the star wars credits scroll.
Any reason for Patreon to sniff around will likely cause a suspension which Vermelion hiding on Discord isn't going to solve. Not sure if anyone speaks Spanish fluent enough to actually get that across to
Vermelion. Patreon will outsource to people that play the game once revenue is noteworthy to them and the opening "Hey, are these my sisters" isn't that hard to miss as there isn't even a patch to obfuscate it.