And they'll pretend they don't have a Patreon that's been shitting money this whole time, lol.
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To be fair, noone is obligated to give him any money. Just take a look at the update history and decide for yourself if this is something you are able/willing to support.
If you decided to do so, fine. If you decided not to, also fine. If you gave someone money without any consideration, then you probably can afford to do so, and or don't deserve to have that money in the first place.
If you did so persistently for a prolonged amount of time expecting things to change, I do not know what to tell you.
Maybe look around and see what's going on in the world. It's not anyone's job to tell you to stop giving them free money. If you were in his position, you probably wouldn't either.
To be fair, I 100% guarantee this game would have been abandoned ages ago if he wasn't making money. Even though he says this is a "free game" doesn't mean it is a free game. All developers need some sort of income, it just so happens his income is ridiculously high for this one game, so why rush it?
I'm generally not one to ever pay for any subscription based service other than power, water and internet, but who am I to tell people what to spend their money on. I'd much rather pay for a game when it's out, but I'm not oblivious to the fact that some of these projects would never even have been started if everything had to be funded that way.
I am glad that some people are careless enough to finance them in my stead, but after a certain point, you can really feel diminishing returns on "throwing a continous stream of money at people in order to motivate them to work".
The exact level of support for this specific project does kind of baffle me a bit, but it happened to find a good niche, delivered a quality product and somehow managed to keep the promise to deliver even more of said quality in suspended animation indefinitely.
It's kinda like the YanDev story, but here there is an actual quality product to look forward to and the person behind it is at least on the surface likable. Again, I don't blame them for taking their time, if you were paid a neat sum continously for doing not much apparent work, would you want it to stop? I sure wouldn't. Yearning for financial security is an integral part of the human condition after all.
Yes, actually I would stop telling people to give me 'free' money if I'm not holding up my end of a deal. Nothing is 'free'. Nobody is giving anyone 'free' money.
I'm not a Patreon sub, never have been. However, in a situation where you're subscribing to someone for a service and that promise(note: not a contract, but a promise) is being broken by not making good on that service provision, even if it's legally completely within your rights to do so, if I'm in a situation where I've provided nobody a service I've been getting paid for for over a year, I'm cancelling not only the ability to subscribe to my Patreon(or whichever platform) and refunding/cancelling current subs. Because, even if you don't or can't believe that people still have integrity, I know I do.
It's not about legal obligation, but moral. Nobody of authority is coming after them. It's just really scummy and I don't encourage that level of lazy behavior.
If you really are convinced that you can maintain that level of integrity in a similar situation, then congrats, you are better than what most people can say about themselves.
I however tend to assume the opposite, and I think that is the more fitting mindset to have in this day and age.
Everybody loves to say this will never be them, until suddenly they are in their position. Very few actually have what it takes to resist corruption.