Surely you can tell exactly what my post was saying. It isn’t hard to comprehend and I even dumbed it down the best I could.
You are talking about “how kickstarter should work” and I’m informing you what actually happened in this case.
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One poster here said donating through Kickstarter is the same as buying stock/shares in a company. It isn’t. You are given incentives to donate, and that’s it. You don’t own anything outright. If that were true, bands would be owned by thousands of people not in the band.
I don’t care if people pull their money. They can do that if they like. They cannot, however, go around thinking they own a piece of the company just because they donated through Kickstarter.
You’re misunderstanding the spirirt and intent of crowd funding in general if you don’t see how it is the same as owning stock in a company. From a legal and technical standpoint obviously it’s completely different as you said donaters are owed a product nothing less or more they have no tangible say in the ongoing business decisions. However, I was specifically referring to what the money donaters spend stands for as a social contract between donaters and kickstarter creators.
People who create kickstarter campaigns are at least socially beholden to those who donate on some level insofar as if the creator does not meet the expectations of donaters then he/she will have unsatisfied customers who will most likely not financially support future projects. Beyond that kickstarter game developers are selling an artistic/entertainment vision, their take on what a game should be so when you donate to their cause you’re implying your desires/ideas happen to align with theirs so not being cognizant of your backers expectations is morally and socially deceptive.
With your flawed logic a kickstarter campaign could be made for a Batman game, and then after it’s funded the developer could change his mind and make the game feature some random henchman and have Batman make only a brief cameo as an NPC. Sure it’s perfectly legal and within the content creator’s right to do that however, it is also a betrayal of the fans expectations and trust because they were lead to believe they would be getting a game featuring Batman.
Fortunately as I said before a feminist community manager who never played a MM before will not affect the nuts and bolts game play whatsoever so this isn’t even a concern as much as it is an odd addition to the team. You would think Inafune would only want those who are passionate and knowledgable about his past works to be part of his new one, but to withdraw your funding just because of that person being tied to the project in an insignificant way? That’s retarded, but hey it’s their money I guess.
Also Inafune himself refutes your post as he himself said everyone who donates is part of the development team in the sense I just explained. he said he wants the game to be a community effort, not just with his team’s input.
You legally don’t own shit. Get over it.
In typical fashion the interwebs has exaggerated the whole Dina situation, but it did bring to light the nature of the relationship between kickstarter creators and their donaters. I’ve said my piece so there’s no need for me to elaborate further (or is it farther?)
Well the relationship between backers/creators is one thing, but it’s just unprofessional on multiple levels to hire a guy’s GF to handle what is effectively public relations on a project with millions invested
Can someone give me the TL;DR on what’s going on?
Some girl who is a feminist and (supposedly) hasn’t played megaman is working on MN9. She apparently works not only in community management but also apparently designs some of the robots (and going off of an early post she had before she worked on the team, her art is not that good nor are her character designs). Now folk are worried she may cause shit to fuck up in the game.
Soooo… Nothing actually happened yet?
Questions:
- Why do people care if she’s (allegedly) a feminist?
That literally has nothing to do with the game, unless people are worried that her views might influence the character designs. Even then, it still has to go through Inafune.
- Why does it matter if she hasn’t played MM?
This isn’t a sequel to MM, nor does it have anything to do with that series. Sure, it would help if she did have some knowledge regarding MM, as it would give her insight as to how Inafune works, but it’s ultimately irrelevant. This is Mighty #9, not Mega Man.
Definitely sounds like people are blowing things out of proportion. I thought she actually did/said something that caused such an outrage…
While I can kind of agree with people that say, “wait until she actually does something bad before freaking out” this is a kind up unique situation. Typically if something goes amiss during the development of a game and the end result isn’t what it was presented as in the first place, you can always “vote with your wallet” and not buy the game. In this case people have put up (collectively) millions of dollars upfront, to make this game. They’d likely feel like waiting until she screws something up would be too late.
Yea, but how much can she actually affect? People are acting like he made her VP of Comcept, or something… She has little to no say in anything that happens with the game.
I should have learned long ago not to bother making long posts 
I’m not going to make any assumptions until we have more info on the game itself.
If the community manager is the link between the players and the developers, and not just a forum mod with a different name, then it’s a pretty important job which can help to improve the game.
I’ve used this example before but think about Seth Killian and all the stuff he did to make Capcom understand the community’s culture, mentality and wishes.(As far as they were willing to listen, in any case) He is also a veteran in Capcom fighting games, understands them better than most people, and has genuine passion for them. It’s easy to see how a guy like this is the right man for the job, and everyone benefits from him doing it.
But this Dina chick in comparison looks like a random person from the internet at best, who can’t do the job better than any of the other forum members. The people who defend her do it by belittling the role she has, but why force the role to be insignificant by giving it to an insignificant person? With a budget of 4 million, why not find the “Seth Killian” of Megaman, make this person a part of the team and let this person shine?
It’s awesome how you’re so pissed off that someone else isn’t understanding your perspective whilst refusing to understand his perspective.
Where did all these gamign feminist/Hipsters come from?
Idk about the hipsters but feminists are mainly actual feminists, or female trolls and whte knights.
Who said anything about being pissed off? Lol don’t know where you got that from. However, I am curious to know what makes you think I refused to listen to Razor’s perspective considering I addressed the flaw in his thinking as directly and clearly as I’m capable of doing while he responded with repeating himself.
never listen to messicans
always listen to white people