When I think about responding to threads like this, I ask myself "Will this add light to the discussion, or heat?" If it is just going to add heat and strife I don't respond.
So, what light do I think I can add?
Nonesuch makes the point that what people are willing to contribute money towards is more sex, less story. And even if TiTs is a labor of love for Fen & co, people have to eat, and that takes money - so fair enough they focus on things that drive money, and people who pay for commissions are very visible and easily counted.
But consider this: I was a subscriber for years. Month after month I paid my Patreon dues, even during the long dry spell of the conversion to Javascript. But as the game drifted from adventure and story (with some fucking) to "Subby Steele and his harem of bimbos", I liked the game less and less. Most of the updates felt like "minutes of fun for the whole family", rather than something really enjoyable for the long term. So, a while ago I decided to stop my subscription.
Now, this is just an anecdote, and as scientifically oriented people say, "the plural of anecdote is NOT data." Maybe I am a single outlier from a tight cloud of data points. But IMHO the TiTs team should ask themselves "We know what the folks who commission works want, but have we actually captured any information about what the subscribers want?" Maybe some polls are in order?
Of course, the likely future is that folks like me will stop subscribing, and that the monetary base will shift even more towards one-shot vingettes of bimbofication and submission, with many never-to-be completed teasers of larger events. And if that's what pays the bills, that's fine. Eventually the Patreonage will move in that direction, and everybody involved will be happy, and everybody who is not involved will leave.
