I don't think that's a good solution. I saw that this game was one of the top 5 all time trending games when I was looking for new games to play. If we used your solution and I can't download it because some busybody decided to prevent new people from downloading the game, I would be pretty mad and would just try to find new websites to download it instead.
Welcome to the Eternal family my friend.
Imagine trying to support each and every game you play.
I just find it curious that missing his own deadlines isn't enough to warrent an update on Patreon, but getting close to F95's abandoned deadline does.
It's now even lowered to 63%
Somebody should report him to patreon though they rarely care about such cases.
Investigated for what, losing patrons? He lost about 1500 of them yesterday so obviously the goal went down
He need to lose all of them for being lazy af
Momentum. Being early means entering a market with low competition. This means that you become the default for any new players, whom are willing to make more risky investments due to not knowing better.
That's because they want to survive. Icstor is at no risk of being starving or being sent to the streets. He earns a comfortable living by doing nothing and isn't greed driven enough to want to put effort into earning a little more.
The 3 month cycle isn't so much for Patreon or his Patrons, but more to address various sites like F95 that have rules about game status and development. F95 has rules that require developer communications to ensure a game isn't abandoned. The communication timeframe for F95 is 3 months (90 days). As stated by a few of the moderators, if there is no game development within 2 years of a previous release, the game will be marked Abandoned. ICSTOR seems to have a marketing machine in place. He's hired a Community spokesperson/PR person to interact with Patrons and publish updates. On another site, someone publishes the comics he created from the artwork of his games every 6 months. This has been going on for the last 18 months. It's like clockwork. The last such release was during February/March of this year, so I expect another release around August. If he updates his Patreon page this month, he won't have to touch it again until September to meet the F95 timeframes. When you know the rules, you can learn how to "game the system". By the rules laid down by the various sites, he's done nothing wrong. Common sense, common curtesy, fair play, whatever... don't come in to play. Until he breaks some site's rule, or rules, he can continue on his merry way.
