Look before i begin i want to clarify. I don't blame anyone who is a supporter of BD to suspend their support. I also don't blame others for questioning intentions, especially since money is involved. What I'm about to say isn't a defense of BD, it's actually more accurately a statement of reality.
So first off, if you don't want to support don't support, if you don't trust BD then follow your gut. But don't mistake your support as a contract or a purchase. The only thing BD owes Patreons are the tier based rewards. If you continue supporting him understand that's exactly what you are doing, supporting him. The project survives off of donations and generosity. You aren't backing the project as an investor, you are supporting the Dev for the projects that he's working on. This isn't go fund me where you are giving money for a specific product, person or service. On Patreon you specifically support creators because you enjoy what they create.
I want you to truly understand what that means here. You aren't owed anything other than teir rewards. That's it. So support for the creator is exactly that, support. You are paying for his doctors appointments, his marriage, his home, his funerals. His food and all his other bills, as well as supporting his machine/machines, programs, models and more.
Can he achieve as much without you? Obviously not, it's not in his best interest to do things that affect or hurt his fan base so i think i see a few things that i want you to consider.
1. He's been very forthcoming with information this whole time. This is a good sign that he's still communicating. The Tyrant went dead and not a word from it's creator. Devs generally stop communicating as much when they are given up on a project.
2. Covid 19 did happen. I know it's memes and all of that, but still this pandemic has had a huge affect on everyone's mental health. He has had alot happen in his life and as someone whos gone through simular things i can understand how that affects you. Keep in mind depression and anxiety affects everyone different but i think it affects BD simular to how it affects me. It's like loosing the will to do anything and the only way i get out of my huge dumps is with proper medication, therapy and lots of support. So yeah people might be getting banned from his discord for speaking out. But when your like this thay negatively does more damage than anything, you can't be around it to get moving again.
I guess what I'm trying to say is bail if your going to bail, but if your sticking around do so for the right reasons and be supportive. If by August nothing has changed i recommend at that time to leave but until then, let's just say that even though I'm not a patreon myself, i just don't believe he's milking it or even lying. I believe that this game blew up huge and the expectations that landed on BD were likely more than his anxiety could handle, coupled with tragedy followed by depression is the perfect recipe for this kind of disaster. Everyone grieves and handles anxiety and depression differently. You can tell when playing that this game and it's story means alot to the guy and that he enjoys sharing it so I'm going to give it a little longer.
