HentaiWriter
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Re: Akabur Games
That type of mentality when people have been giving you $12,000 a month is just bonkers and HAS to be turning people off of Patreon.
I mean hell, we just broke $5,000 and I feel awful that we don't have the upgraded demo out, despite us having actual legitimate reasons why we don't have it out yet that aren't laziness (our programmer got basically shafted by a tax-evading landlord that held his stuff for a week without letting him have access to it, an electrical outage, two sicknesses, and so forth all hitting Cheshire back to back, but thankfully all that bad stuff's past now).
I dunno, I just couldn't live with myself if people were giving me tons of money and I was just sitting around not getting much work done, and I definitely wouldn't pledge to anyone with that kind of work ethic either, but more than anything else, if pledging to him was my first experience with Patreon, I likely would never use it again.
(I pledged $400 back when my financial situation was a lot, lot better about three years ago to a Kickstarter project; the project's owners vanished with thousands upon thousands of dollars, never even came close to finishing the project, and block anyone questioning what they did with the money. I haven't used Kickstarter since solely because of that bad experience.)
Well, I was going more off of what people were saying in the topic as of recent where he's basically like "yeah i've been working on this project for like months and here's what you get, barely anything of an update and I'm not going to work on it anymore, deal with it".@
@HentaiWriter: I'm not sure I would say he is causing people to stop using Patreon. Akabur continues to gain supporters, and he DID release a game. Since many of the supporters remained, and he gained new ones, Witch Trainer must have met the majority of his supporters' standards. Really, that seems like the point. I personally wanted to see more, and others seem to share my viewpoint, but the general vibe on his Patreon is that Witch Trainer was a job well done.
That type of mentality when people have been giving you $12,000 a month is just bonkers and HAS to be turning people off of Patreon.
I mean hell, we just broke $5,000 and I feel awful that we don't have the upgraded demo out, despite us having actual legitimate reasons why we don't have it out yet that aren't laziness (our programmer got basically shafted by a tax-evading landlord that held his stuff for a week without letting him have access to it, an electrical outage, two sicknesses, and so forth all hitting Cheshire back to back, but thankfully all that bad stuff's past now).
I dunno, I just couldn't live with myself if people were giving me tons of money and I was just sitting around not getting much work done, and I definitely wouldn't pledge to anyone with that kind of work ethic either, but more than anything else, if pledging to him was my first experience with Patreon, I likely would never use it again.
(I pledged $400 back when my financial situation was a lot, lot better about three years ago to a Kickstarter project; the project's owners vanished with thousands upon thousands of dollars, never even came close to finishing the project, and block anyone questioning what they did with the money. I haven't used Kickstarter since solely because of that bad experience.)