how is patreon paradise compared to steam?
adult game devs generally make more money on steam than on patreon (if they are on both).
In 2022, Patreon did
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, and it appear that in average Patreon represent only 41% of a creator income. It obviously vary depending on the category you're on; by example game creators can't apply to coaching. But it being an average smoother those differences.
I'm too lazy to search, but there's many NSFW game creators who talked about this, and globally between 60% and 33% of their earning come from Patreon. On what side one is depending on his game popularity (the more popular it is, the higher are the chance that people get it from itch.io or Steam by example) and the creator's popularity (the more (s)he's know, the higher he'll be asked for commissions).
why "migrate" to patreon when you can be on both patreon and steam? and why would sfw indie devs earn more on patreon than on steam when adult devs dont?
Basic one dimension reasoning ("SFW have a bigger public, bigger public mean more money") that rely on a reverse of the thinker core belief ("people hate Patreon because it's nothing but a scam"->"all creators on Patreon are scammer") that is extended ( "All scammers want to be on Patreon") then filtered by the thinker delusion ("I love Steam, so it's totally impossible for scammers to be there").
Kids, do not reproduce this at home, it's a thinking process that should be left to professionals with years of experience in "facts and common sense doesn't matters".
lastly, sfw indie devs do only marginally compete with adult devs since it's a fairly different market.
Anyway the "competition" between SFW and NSFW game creators is not something new at all.
There's near to 3 times more SFW game creators on Patreon (
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) than there's NSFW game creators (
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). It have always been like this. Globally the demographic for the twos evolve in parallel.
The oldest SFW game creator date from may 2013, while the oldest NSFW one date from June 2013. And if you split the list in half, there as many SFW game creators that were on Patreon before June 2021 that after that date, while for NSFW game creators it's Nov 2021.
The last point is interesting, because it's only mid 2016 that Patreon achieved to
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, by securing a deal with Payement processors for them to handle their transactions. Yet it clearly wasn't such important issue for NSFW game creators, it just made Patreon more attractive for them after that date.
But well, is it surprising that DuniX drawn a theory without checking the facts first?