I’m not sure what you meant by monthly updates in the first two paragraphs, but we are not against people streaming patreon content. The guideline written in 2020 can be found here here.
All the updates are also available publicly after 90 days just like the reports, so there is no need to support if you don’t feel like it. We want you to support the game because you like it, want to see it succeed, and are in a position where you can afford to do so.
- Punipen
I thought it was clear as I wrote an announcement stating the reason already, but I suppose it was limited to Patreon only so some might not understand, as I thought it was only relevant to supporters. I should make it public now so it’ll be clearer.
I’m confused because the game being datamined and shared outside of supporters didn’t stop monthly reports. The announcement about no more monthly report was posted in March this year.
The leak, however, affected our decision to release a new build (but the builds have never been released monthly and we made clear of that even on the Patreon page.) We didn’t want to release anything with unfinished assets or having to worry about people datamining the game and leaking something that could spoil anything beyond Chapter 7, so we said that any new build, if there would be one, would be something that’s polished or at least contain only things that we won’t feel bad if it’s seen by non-supporters.
Having to clean up the builds, making sure that there’s nothing for dataminers to find, costs us extra time and labour when we’re already a small group with limited resources. And I’m sure that people would be happier with a finished game.
- Punipen
