I really love the fact that despite the f95 version of the game being pirated and (illegally) free, you still post announcements and devlogs over here despite the fact that you should have every reason to hate this website.
Are you just taking pity on us broke folks or do you also secretly support piracy?
Many devs probably see this site as marketing campaign too, cuz not all of us here just pirating the game, many support the dev by subscribing the patreon, but because there is so many game and with all of these indies developers who used subscription as a way to get development money, the development time for one game will be pretty long, so not everyone wanted to subscribe from day one to finish products.
Many of us here used this site as a way to tracks the development when we are not subscribing, but if new update released and it's good, many folks here will subscribe and support the dev, if they think the update is not that good, they will skip it or wait for it to be posted here.
I subscribed few devs Patreons including Hizor, but I don't have enough money to do it every month and i feel like i don't want to play every update, I don't like some of them, but if i like them, i will subscribe, i knew many of us here did this kind of thing too.
So, many devs will try to get these kind of users to become their Patreon, devs cannot turn a blind eye on how many users are here, all of these are potential consumers that can bring money to the devs.
So instead of fully hating it, they can just embrace it, promote their game and hopefully can get consumers that support them whether by subscribing or just telling their friends about the game, attracting more potential costumers.
And as a costumer, i can also see which dev are deserves to get my money, we saw many devs who just milking their game for money, but when the money start to decrease because they kept pushing the new release, they will abandoned it, many devs had done it, which is bad for costumer like me who spent our money expecting the final product.
All in all, if the devs can deliver good games, money will comes even if the game are being pirated, that's it