I think people are viewing this completely unreasonably. A patreon isn't a purchase, it isn't a kickstarter, and honestly though it's pretty close it isn't even a donation.
Yes it's a crowdfunding website, but at no point are you paying for the creation of a completed project, you are only paying for the next ____ listed on the project. I believe in the case of Breeding Season this was the MONTH. You are not buying a completed work, you are not paying for a work to be completed, your money only exist to fund the work FOR THAT MONTH, S-Purple owed no obligation beyond what is mentioned in his contract with HBomb which because of HBOMB'S own mistakes left S-Purple with basically no obligation, risk, or responsibility.
Backers paid a group of people who didn't have much to show for themselves a lot of money as an incentive for them to keep working. S-Purple as a person whether he was right or wrong looked at the situation the project was in, just as a lot of backers did and believed there wasn't much that was going to come out of the project, he made the decision to do with HIS time another project he felt had a better chance at success, who knows why the project took the downward turn it did, but it did.
And here is where people are probably going to disagree with me but, Breeding Season has ceased production, and that wouldn't have happened if S-Purple 1.Sold the assets 2. Continued to work on it. But ceasing production and being dead are two completely different things. The project was dead for a long time, and had he not made the decisions he did the game would have continued to flounder and drain people's money for something he believed that was never going to produce anything of worth.
And honestly it wasn't S-Purple's game, the failure of the project can't ever be solely on him, he was given 50% of the income as an art contractor, which is the most retarded financial decisions HBomb could have made, even throwing away his ability as the creator to have the complete and final say over it's development which patreon gave him the ability to keep for basically no reason when another artist could have done better for half that. As a leader it was his fault for giving S-Purple that contract that kept him from firing s-purple the moment he failed to produce work that HBomb wanted. The two people are an artist and a coder, neither of them are leaders or even competent project managers but 4000(?) people thought that they were worth giving thousands of dollars to.
If you don't believe in Cloud Meadows or w/e that is perfectly fine, but don't pretend like "it's high risk" "or I won't see any return" YOU WILL NEVER SEE A RETURN on any patreon. You aren't investing, you aren't going to get any money out of backing you are throwing money at a group of people on this internet whether it's for TITs, Carnal Souls, Breeding season or w/e for them to give them incentive to create that update that puts a check in their account.
TL;DR Breeding Season was doomed long before S-purple left, S-purple's art isn't that great but he got a shit ton of money and that's Hbomb's fault. Patreon/Kickstarter is a money dump for people with disposable income.
This was way longer than it should have been for a game I never played.
If you are going to back something on patreon... at least see if the person running has done ANYTHING to completion, even being a part of someone else's thing.
