Hero's Song Kickstarter CANCELED

netglen

Well that didn't last very long.

Hero's Song Canceled

We're taking the Kickstarter down

"Hello Everyone,

After looking at our funding levels and the reality that we aren't going to reach our funding goals, we've decided that the best thing to do is to end the Kickstarter. We sincerely appreciate all of the support we got from the backers and the Kickstarter community. This was our first Kickstarter and we made mistakes along the way. I want to acknowledge that right up front. We put a lot of time and effort into the Kickstarter, but it's obvious missing things like physical goods hampered our efforts. It's also fair to say because we're early that we didn't have enough gameplay to show the game off enough to get people over the hump.

So where do we go from here? Well the good news is that our Investors are backing us all the way and we're going to get Hero's Song done exactly when we said we would. I'm also happy to say that we've been able to do this without having to take money from publishers, something that was of key importance to us so that we could remain in creative control.

We'll be updating you all along the way.. holding development streams (on Cohhcarnage's stream on Twitch) and being completely transparent with our development process. You'll be hearing from us all the time and we'll be updating our website and all of you on a constant basis as we have cool stuff to show.

Thanks again for all the support you've shown, and thanks for the constructive criticism as well. We took that to heart and we've learned a lot from it.

Kickstarter remains an incredible source of both goodwill and community support, and we'll never forget the kindness our backers showed us.

Thanks and we'll see you soon!

Smed and the Pixelmage Games Team."

EponyxDamor

That awkward moment when the consumers don't want your games anymore.

Ridelynn

...and there was much rejoicing

SBFord

From this morning in the newsroom:

http://mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm/read/38062/Smedley-Team-Cancel-Heros-Song-KickStarter.html

Arglebargle

Failure of concept, failure at presentation.   And maybe more than a few burned bridges....

MrSnuffles

I couldn't be more glad to see the back of them, good riddance I say.

sludgebeard

Suck it Smed

Slapshot1188

I kind of feel compelled to reflexively back Kickstarters, but even I took one look at that and said...   NAAAAAAHHHHH

MightyUnclean

TL;DR:  We'll make this piece of crap whether you guys want it or not!

ElRenmazuo

I hope this kickstarter succeeds https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thrivegames/dragon-of-legends

GeezerGamer

So wait...
This scumbag had financial backing all along? He thought "Let's not use all the money from investors, we have to pay them back? Let's use the free money well instead?" I got words for this piece of.........
(Alright I'll stop right there before I get a ban.)

whisperwynd

GeezerGamer said:

So wait...
This scumbag had financial backing all along? He thought "Let's not use all the money from investors, we have to pay them back? Let's use the free money well instead?" I got words for this piece of.........
(Alright I'll stop right there before I get a ban.)

It's not news, he stated as much in the original KS video asking for money. It was probably a test to see what kind of hype he'd get or what else they want to add. 

GeezerGamer

whisperwynd said:

GeezerGamer said:

So wait...
This scumbag had financial backing all along? He thought "Let's not use all the money from investors, we have to pay them back? Let's use the free money well instead?" I got words for this piece of.........
(Alright I'll stop right there before I get a ban.)

It's not news, he stated as much in the original KS video asking for money. It was probably a test to see what kind of hype he'd get or what else they want to add. 

Doesn't matter, He had no business asking for money from people when he already had it. I hope this game tanks as a laughable failure.

goobsnews

It's amusing to me to see people in here shit talking Jsmed's character when you've shelled and shilled for Chris Roberts. Quite a knee slapper.

whisperwynd

GeezerGamer said:

whisperwynd said:

GeezerGamer said:

So wait...
This scumbag had financial backing all along? He thought "Let's not use all the money from investors, we have to pay them back? Let's use the free money well instead?" I got words for this piece of.........
(Alright I'll stop right there before I get a ban.)

It's not news, he stated as much in the original KS video asking for money. It was probably a test to see what kind of hype he'd get or what else they want to add. 

Doesn't matter, He had no business asking for money from people when he already had it. I hope this game tanks as a laughable failure.

In this I agree.  Not the failure part. I haven't followed nor care about the game.

The KS and who it should help is another topic of conversation altogether imo.

MightyUnclean

Guy walks up to you at Burger King with a fist full of cash:  Hey man, can I have a dollar for a cheeseburger?

Ghavrigg

Why are people so excited that the Kickstarter failed? The game is still going to get made regardless. It's not like this in any way matters. Except for the few people who now get to keep their money they were so eager to throw away.

Wizardry

Ridelynn said:

...and there was much rejoicing

Yayyyy !!!

And so the Brave knight continued his journey in his quest for the Holy Grail. :awesome: 

sludgebeard

Ghavrigg said:

Why are people so excited that the Kickstarter failed? The game is still going to get made regardless. It's not like this in any way matters. Except for the few people who now get to keep their money they were so eager to throw away.

Lets not be so sure of ourselves about that one. Smed has botched alot of games up in the past, hes a shell of his former glory, peddling to kickstarter like the common man, his word can give us not garuntee.

Aelious

Ghavrigg said:

Why are people so excited that the Kickstarter failed? The game is still going to get made regardless. It's not like this in any way matters. Except for the few people who now get to keep their money they were so eager to throw away.

You highly underestimate the amount of [self edit] human beings there are out there that are happy whenever something bad happens to Smed. It has something to do with games that these people played as a form of entertainment which, I guess, completely translates to wanting jobs/revenue to be lost and the future happiness of other players dashed. It's astounding from a human psychological perspective but sad from a social discourse one. I love human psychology however so it's somewhat amusing.

Thebeasttt

This is a good move. Smed doesn't deserve free money from desperate gamers when he's been trash talking the old school RPG genre for years. Maybe if Hero's Song somehow ends up decent and not Freemium garbage he'll earn the respect of his target audience.

But until then he should keep his head down and focus on making an undeniably great old school MMO.

FrodoFragins

GeezerGamer said:

So wait...
This scumbag had financial backing all along? He thought "Let's not use all the money from investors, we have to pay them back? Let's use the free money well instead?" I got words for this piece of.........
(Alright I'll stop right there before I get a ban.)

I don't think you can read it any other way.  Star citizen really opened the floodgates.

I've yet to support a kickstarter project and it would have to be something tied to an IP that I love that would otherwise never get developed.

Feonixo

Shite game. Just Smedley trying to make a quick buck off fans of 2D games. I'm glad they had more sense. 

iixviiiix

But if i remember right , he make more than Brad with only $80.000 or so in the first pantheon kickstarter .

tawess

I find it fairly adorable how spiteful many people in thisthread is. Disturbing but at the same time adorable, like a 2yo being angry at the TV. 

Now i agree that it is sort of a dick move to use Kickstarter as a market analysis tool. But if that got him investors i can only congratulate. The game looks cute, not my style but i am sure there is a market for it.  

barasawa

Thebeasttt said:

This is a good move. Smed doesn't deserve free money from desperate gamers when he's been trash talking the old school RPG genre for years. Maybe if Hero's Song somehow ends up decent and not Freemium garbage he'll earn the respect of his target audience.

But until then he should keep his head down and focus on making an undeniably great old school MMO.

Don't worry, I have faith that even if he made an excellent game, he'd find some way to screw it up or completely alienate himself from the fans, if not both.