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Yeah, then that's some BS. I mean, it hurts Patreon too because they take about 30% cut of small donations (although half of that goes to payment processors IIRC). I guess they just want to avoid all legal flack and figure they're big enough they'll always have income no matter what. Based on their creator report, basically if someone just spam reports a dev, it's almost guaranteed to deplatform them from Patreon since very few of the cancellation requests come from law enforcement. So the loud minority takes control. It sucks too because he was making a solid six figure income at that point and I don't think he has recovered to his original income yet.

Before the Patreon apocalypse, someone reported him for review manipulation on F95zone, which is kind of a stupid claim since he was already very popular with over a hundred 5 star reviews, there is no reason he would need to do that. The crackhead conspiracy side of me thinks a rivaling dev was trying to go after him since donors are a limited quantity and everyone is fighting for their attention and money. Something similar to that happened to a dev of another game that's teaching me some stuff, which caused him to quit working on his game.