We don't have any connections with the original company that created hdtf apart from one single dev from that company that's still working on the game in the new team. All the people currently working on fixing the game are volunteers and fans of the game working on it in their spare time. All the money we get from the patreon goes directly into paying for server costs that make working on the game way easier, none of the money is pocketed for ourselves. Plus you don't even need to donate to get access to the private dev build, anyone who reports enough bugs is given access to it for free.

Also I wouldn't call the private developer build a "fixed version" because that's what the (owf_staging_prep) build is for, since the (owf_development_build) is a private developer build it's meant for developers so most of the time it's more broken and has even more issues with it.

Dont care about the internal disputes in your company, its your problem not mine. The fact is, money was charged on a broken product and the review is for the product. I can't think of any other game I have ever played that charged money, then had a fixed version that you have to pay even more money for. Even if there is another version that you claim has 99.8% of the fixes that isn't an extra charge, just the fact that you are charging money for fixes on a game, that I already paid for, even if it really is 0.2%, it gets thumbs down on principle alone.

You only need to donate to the patreon to access the private dev build (owf_development_build). If you want to play the public fixed build without donating just select the (owf_staging_prep) build instead in the betas since it has 99.8% of the fixes the private build has.

The (owf_development_build) build mainly exists for us to quickly test the changes / fixes so we can find any issues before pushing it to the (owf_staging_prep) build. Patreon supporters are only given access to the private dev build as a bonus for them helping us make the updates possible.

The only reason we have a patreon is because we get nothing from steam sales, since all the game sale money goes to Berkan who abandoned the game and didn't pay any of the devs.