Stop falling for the kickstarter schemes.
I’ve donated 0 dollars and 0 cents to kickstarters, and I am happy. You’ve donated 200 dollars, and you seem mad.
A coincidence? I think not!
The kickstarters for RPGs have been the ones to actually deliver. Divinity: Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity, Shadowrun Returns, and Wasteland 2 have been great.
I felt like Wasteland 2 and Shadowrun Returns were actually hot garbage, but at least delivered a product many people liked.
Divinity had its flaws (and was actually finished before they went to KS) and Pillars of Eternity was genuinely great.
I kicked it for $170. -shrug- as frustrating as all the delays are I also don’t really care. We’ll get it when we get it. My back log is astronomically large right now and I don’t really need one more game to put on top of the stack.
The other video games I’ve kicked seem to be progressing fine. Which is nice. Adventures of Pip was great albeit no replay value. Yooka Layley is shaping up to be wonderful as well.
The only other time I’ve had issues with a Kickstarter was a miniatures game called Relic Knights. It was delayed for over a year and a half. By the time it came out I didn’t even care or want to play it. I opened my box to make sure everything was there, taped the box back up and put it in my basement.
I bet Inafune wasn’t happy with MN9’s voice… so he delayed the game to record it again, now with Nolan North… he just screams at the dude “More passion! More intensity!! MOOOREEEE!!!”
Hey at least this dude is still trying ( hopefully ). All those people who supported Beast Fury either because “Oooo Furry characters!” Or because of Max and Ego raptor shilling for it, can’t say the same. Dude did most of his funding on IndieGoGo so he’s taking the majority of those funds and walking away like a con man who just pulled of a successful job.
Or at least disgruntled J developers who always blamed the publisher for their failures, start crowd funding campaigns for the same shit they were doing before, and J developers who use kickstarter while sharing the same work assets. There are way too many parallels between Iga and Inafune. I guarantee you Inafune sent Iga an email on how to get rich after Iga announced he left Conami after not doing diddly for the company after a decade.