Kickstarter cancelled.
Kickstarter cancelled.
Ruh roh.
So apparently this has been pushed back until April 2014, but the first half will be released in January. The one caveat there is that they will be funding the remainder of development with sales from the first half, which is giving me bad memories of Sin Episodes and countless others.
Yeah, that's really bad. I'm not sure this game has a chance of living up to the money poured into it, considering the kickstarting and private investing that's taken it this far, plus the way way longer development time.
RIP Kickstarter
Haha wow. As skeptical as I have been of KS, I always thought Double Fine would play it straight. I never anticipated they would turn it into some sort of crappy ponzi scheme. Are they going to use money from their new Kickstarter to pay for this? I know they say they won't, but developers do that all the time...
BTW this is why publishers meddle with developers. because developers apparently don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Tim Shafer has been making games for over 20 years! He should be above this nonsense.
That's the dumb thing: They already got like an extra $2.5 million, which is how they're even extending development as far as January. But then that means they really only need like another $500k to just ship the whole goddamn thing in April. It seems like a desperate, risky move to pull just because your game is $500k short of its $6 million budget.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Yeah, I always thought people backing KS to be anti-publisher were retarded. Publishers can be (justifiably) too conservative with their investments at times, and I think KS is a great way around that, but I'd still rather a game get made with the support of a publisher than without in most cases where that's a viable option.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I'm pretty sure Broken Age also already got some outside investment on top of the kickstarter monies. It's just a poorly scoped and managed project.
In the beginning I thought industry vets would fare better than independent nobodies on KS but I think I was wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
KS has worked out well for the nobodies who have been living in a cave for 2 years and just need a small cash infusion to get over the hump and feed their children before they starve.
Unfortunately the era for that may have already passed as independent guys are hitting it up earlier.
Funny how they didn't mention these issues before the end of the Massive Chalice Kickstarter...