First of all a thank you is not enough to predatorially incentivize people. And to suggest that's what they were doing is conspiratorial and based on imaginary trauma not reality.
There’s nothing inherently wrong or immoral about donating to a game and receiving something in return. There’s no rule, legal or ethical, that says a donation stops being a donation the moment a trivial in game digital reward is involved.
Disliking that model doesn’t make it invalid, and it doesn’t prove anything beyond personal preference.
A lot of this reaction feels less like principle and more like leftover frustration from pay-to-win mobile games being projected onto a completely different situation.
What’s stranger is how quick people are to shut down transparent indie developers who are openly trying to fund their work and build something sustainable.
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