Eh. Seems like a bit of a hollow argument to me. Why not make it open to everyone? Let someone else help pick up the slack. Many hands make light workYou make it sound like his motive is to make money from this thing - like he thinks he has some gem that nobody else can have unless you pay him. That's not how he works. He's releasing it early access for patrons precisely because it's not good enough to release widely. It will be available to everybody when it reaches his standard of quality. Like he did with RA, Mupen, and PPSSPP.