Re: Ghost Hunter Vena (Vosmug)
If you wonder why somebody doesn't want to use patreon or that kickstarter thingy, maybe they develop their games for fun? Things get different when you are doing something for fun, not doing it for money. Also most of devs/translator who doing it without money usually does better job at it.
There's a problem with that statement;
Making a game is a large undertaking. As in, thousands upon thousands of hours. (Unless you're making a really, REALLY short game, or a really crappy one, and in both cases those still take a solid chunk of time.)
So, there are only three types of people who can undertake such a thing;
A) People who are loaded money-wise from their primary job, and are working on the game bit by bit, as they have to focus on their primary job, so the game takes an eternity to come out
B) People who are loaded money-wise from inheritance or retirement or some other form of money that doesn't require any actual working, so they can focus on the game primarily without the worry of money (AFAIK I don't know anyone who makes hentai games that this falls under)
C) People who are not loaded money-wise and need to get paid to make the game, otherwise they'd have to devote their time to other projects to keep afloat.
In all three cases, there's no evidence showing that "not getting paid = better product". The people who are currently sitting on huge amounts of money on Patreon without making much progress are just bad at working and keeping motivated, and they'd be the same without money as well.
Someone who actually doesn't like taking advantage of others (as in a decent human being) would actually work HARDER the more they'd be getting paid and being taken care of financially, but unfortunately, many people nowadays don't want to adhere to that.
(Also, as you said, getting paid usually creates deadlines, but that doesn't mean that MONEY is what causes games to be bad, but DEADLINES and rushing things intentionally is what causes them to be bad, and whether you're getting paid money or not, people can fall victim to deadlines as well as poor planning of how long it'll take them to do stuff, and of course sicknesses and so forth.)
The same goes for translating games/comics; these are massive undertakings, but in most cases, translating games/comics is generally to get them to the western populace, and therefore they're being posted and distributed illegally, so in a lot of cases these people do this for free because they literally cannot get paid for it legally.
(Or case A or B applies above.)
