Finally got the first stage of the flying update for the Unreal version done. Tons of bugs though. But one more patch and it should be good mostly.
We also saw the second test flight of Starship in November (on a side note: I always find it funny how some say it was a success and others no, it was a failure, while in reality it was just a partial success (or partial failure^^)). You can see the date of the flight clearly in the download numbers:
Unfortunately this resulted in zero contributions on Itch. At least the other channels were similar as last time. So we got a total of 175 $ via KoFi and Patreon.
KoFi is nice, but I don't get any monthly contributions there. All have been one offs so far. Haven't been a lot in total though, so let's see how it develops.
Since I have been using Patreon for one year now, let's make a comparison. Here are the total contributions for the first year of Patreon and the same time period for Itch:
Patreon: 1310 € | after fees: 1082 €
Itch: 655 $ | after fees: 555 $
On both platforms there is about 10% platform fee and the rest is payment processing, which is in the same area also around 10% for both platforms. So no clear winner there. At least, if you pay the suggested fee on Itch. You can also choose to pay zero. But that's not how to do business^^