Originally posted by Azoun:

It would be nice if Irongate could hire some of these talented modders to speed up development in the base game.

That's not really going to work, or there's no past indication of such. Look at BGS's Creation Club – it's mostly just glorified microtransactions, and almost nothing available on there is anything that cannot be recreated with free mods... almost.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-premium-75811285

Injecting advertisements into the game seems a bit scummy to me. Using Patreon by itself to make some money isn't.