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Could you give examples? I can’t picture the use cases, I don’t game often.

yuzu, a Switch emulator, had introduced network play support a while ago that was gated behind Patreon subscriptions but was subsequently removed. https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-x-raptor/

IIRC, for a while cemu (a Wii U emulator) had builds with support for Breath of the Wild gated behind Patreon early access as well.

It wasn't so much that builds with support for it were behind paywall, more that the latest build which supported BOTW more were.

BOTW would still play just worse, then they'd release the next version on patreon and make the last one free.

Now it just runs well.

Yes, the raptor thing seemed a bit fishy to me back then as well, especially since they're a non-free third party.

Happy that they got rid of it, but there was quite a bit of community pushback needed.

One I'm aware of is: https://www.patreon.com/rileytestut

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