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Agree with you there on the most part but (not excusing this but I can get their mindset) if you're a financial geek (disclosure - I am haha) you can kind of see where Patreon is coming from. They've received a lot of capital and investments from venture capital groups over the last few years (Shocking,... I am NOT a Big Fan of Patreon. I subscribe and Follow, but Not a "paying member".
DEV's Need a Site To POST Their "games/VN's without the Morality & "Thought Police" Rules!!
The Only Thing I am against is "corruption or abuse of a Minor". But Patreon's views on Incest story lines Is BULLSHIT!!
All long As All CGI characters are 18+ Who F*cking Cares?? It is a STORY, Not REAL!!
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) and are probably heading down the road to an IPO or positioning themselves to where they'd be bought out by a major tech company (think Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc). When companies, investors, people in general started looking at their business model it raised a lot of eyebrows for people seeing adult games in their portfolio (especially Dark Cookie whose game was incest themed and who still to this day is the 4th highest earner for all content creators
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). So naturally, there was going to be a lot questions and pearl clutching and faux-outrage so Patreon did what any company would do - take a sledgehammer in and try and mitigate the problem in hopes to pleasing everyone (which... they didn't haha).They've had a lot of controversies booting people off (
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) for weakish reasons that drew some irk for people (especially when they would ask how you can boot off some people but have porn games on their site that don't get the same oversight) so I think ultimately Patreon would probably like to get themselves out of the adult gaming side of things (think Tumblr and their ban on adult content). Which is sad since they've been an easy place for creators to put their projects out there for exposure but ultimately probably a good thing because hopefully other platforms that don't have restrictions can grow and take over this business model.