Simply off, the author needs to tell them to pound sand and find another option. Really, they'd probably have a better option of incorporating in HK as a small 1-employee online business.
I'll keep a copy of what we have now, just in case.
Yes. There may be a way to salvage things. However, if Patreon hears any rumors of circumventing their rules, they'll shut it down again. As a community, we'd best keep that lowkey quiet. If this tenuous balancing act can be maintained just for the rest of the year, the game can be finally finished and everyone can move on from dealing with Patreon.
Exactly.
Fanbase and sunk cost fallacy is my guess. Realisticly they've still got all the work they've already put into the game, the only thing patreon has lost them is their connection to their paying fans. Swapping would inevitably cost them some of those subscribers who for whatever reason fail to make the platform hop with them, but in my opinion thats still better than having no paying subscribers due to being deplatformed. Other than that, just plain inertia of having to go to the effort of setting up on a new site. it's not a huge amount of work, but it does require them to mentally cut their losses with patreon, which is surprisingly hard for many people to do.
You got it. There's many variables in play, including just legitimately time and stress. Everyone's doing their best. There's good news coming, but we need to be careful so as not to ruin things again when the project is so close to completion. Just a bit longer and it'll be complete and a whole new site for a finished game can be found. Everything will work out as long as we work together.
Congrats to the developer
Might not be the best meme to use, considering how starcraft 2 turned out...
