The currently existing Patreon integration enables you to give access to specific games if a user is a patron of yours with a minimum $ amount of a pledge.
As far as I understand, this is not connected to cookies in any way. It only uses the OAuth2 workflow to validate the user has an active pledge on Patreon. If the pledge is found and fulfills the minimum $ requirement, a key for the game is added to users itchio account.
We use this to distribute Patreon-only builds to our patrons. As Subscribestar supports OAuth2 as well, it'd be neat to have this functionality available for Subscribestar as well! :)
Sounds like something that itch better collect money from patreon for... ;-) Patreon is acting like a parasite to itch in my eyes. There is no game catalogue to browse on patreon. Especially for your stuff. Afaik on subscribestar you can at least look at other creators doing similar stuff.
So I browse on itch and patreon gets the money, and the itch project page is even unlocked for patreon users.
They should better take away more of the cake. There are people not liking patreon very much. And as you point out, the integration and visibility of subscribestar has some catching up to do.
