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Imma be the Devil's advocate here just for a second. If it was just greed, wouldn't it be in his best interest to continue making the game? Constant, quality updates is what got people to the table to begin with. Just "Greed" isn't the answer here, unless he is secretly working on a separate project on a completely separate Patreon, and half-assing two (or more) games at the same time and collecting multiple Patreon paychecks.
Yeah, just greed doesn't sound right. Laziness is more like it. If he expects to get X payout for Y effort, but realized he can still get 25% of X for 1% of Y, then the path of least effort still ends up being lucrative.
 

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I believe he got hit with burnout. He was putting so much content weekly in the beginning that he was probably working like 16 hour days for that much. Either that, or he had a huge backlog before he started posting the game.

But he can't walk away now, because that's his passive income source now (lol)
 
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The only thing that makes sense to me is that he said a season 1 rework would be done by early 2023, and a year later it still isn't here. He's been releasing content for season 2 at a steady albeit often delayed pace in the meantime. Perhaps he's simultaneously reworking season 1 while releasing content for season 2, and getting burned out doing it.
I don't really think there's too much of a greed factor in play, since I'd be willing to bet that he's lost a lot of subscribers over the last 1-2 years, and he hasn't changed the way he does anything in order to retain them or win them back, and he keeps pausing the monthly payments when things don't work out.

Maybe I'm being too much of an optimist, I don't know.
 

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The only thing that makes sense to me is that he said a season 1 rework would be done by early 2023, and a year later it still isn't here. He's been releasing content for season 2 at a steady albeit often delayed pace in the meantime. Perhaps he's simultaneously reworking season 1 while releasing content for season 2, and getting burned out doing it.
I don't really think there's too much of a greed factor in play, since I'd be willing to bet that he's lost a lot of subscribers over the last 1-2 years, and he hasn't changed the way he does anything in order to retain them or win them back, and he keeps pausing the monthly payments when things don't work out.

Maybe I'm being too much of an optimist, I don't know.
Let's not get into his work and whatnot, everyone has their opinion and posts about it, same with the pauses (there was someone mentioned that as he posted an unpause happened and he was charged. Not sure how that works, so I don't wanna go into that).

For the sub count, it actually increased over the last year. Even from last month if you check this graph and what his patreon shows currently:
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starthrow

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Let's not get into his work and whatnot, everyone has their opinion and posts about it, same with the pauses (there was someone mentioned that as he posted an unpause happened and he was charged. Not sure how that works, so I don't wanna go into that).

For the sub count, it actually increased over the last year. Even from last month if you check this graph and what his patreon shows currently:
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I stand corrected.
 

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Let's not get into his work and whatnot, everyone has their opinion and posts about it, same with the pauses (there was someone mentioned that as he posted an unpause happened and he was charged. Not sure how that works, so I don't wanna go into that).

For the sub count, it actually increased over the last year. Even from last month if you check this graph and what his patreon shows currently:
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Must be the favourite game of BME Pain Olympics survivors cause nobody in their right mind who still has their balls attached would pay this clown.
 
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I don't really think there's too much of a greed factor in play, since I'd be willing to bet that he's lost a lot of subscribers over the last 1-2 years, and he hasn't changed the way he does anything in order to retain them or win them back, and he keeps pausing the monthly payments when things don't work out.

Maybe I'm being too much of an optimist, I don't know.
Yeah i don't really buy that line of argument . I'm quite cynical , so i read it as a ploy usually . That kind of decision buy you more leeway and future goodwill , if you're calculating . Of course people are going to assume that you're legit if you pause "and lose money" . When in reality , you already received a sizeable afflux on money for the work you didn't deliver months ahead of deciding to pause . And then you're convincing others of your good nature , so will receive more subs whenever you remove the pause . Then rinse and repeat
 
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Must be the favourite game of BME Pain Olympics survivors cause nobody in their right mind who still has their balls attached would pay this clown.
Agree with you, but sadly, patreon numbers don't really lie. And I also remember the the last time I checked his numbers, he was in the early 3000s, and now over 3,7k.
So he either
1) found a different platform, where not that many people are critisizing him
2) not that many people here actually read comments or just dont care and want to pay him as they like the game
3) managed to worm himself into a masochistic group and encouraged them to be part of his circle as they will definitely suffer.
 

Mommysbuttslut

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Agree with you, but sadly, patreon numbers don't really lie. And I also remember the the last time I checked his numbers, he was in the early 3000s, and now over 3,7k.
So he either
1) found a different platform, where not that many people are critisizing him
2) not that many people here actually read comments or just dont care and want to pay him as they like the game
3) managed to worm himself into a masochistic group and encouraged them to be part of his circle as they will definitely suffer.
Tbh I think another part of that is that BrainDead fans just don't come here no more. Every few weeks we get some clown defending this dog fucker but they're getting less and less common. Doesn't mean he doesn't have fans, just means they don't insert themselves into our discussion about what a lying pos garbage dev he is as much anymore.
 

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Agree with you, but sadly, patreon numbers don't really lie. And I also remember the the last time I checked his numbers, he was in the early 3000s, and now over 3,7k.
So he either
1) found a different platform, where not that many people are critisizing him
BD has his Discord server as his personal echo chamber, where his stories are celebrated as absolute truth and his updates as the Holy Grail. There are people here who post screenshots from his server from time to time.
 

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BD has his Discord server as his personal echo chamber, where his stories are celebrated as absolute truth and his updates as the Holy Grail. There are people here who post screenshots from his server from time to time.
Oh, I know about that. I was talking about the pretty huge increase of his subs in the last year. It increased by a thousand since january 2023. I would be surprised if just those people managed to get that many braindead fans.
 
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