I'm still not seeing it. 90 million dollars to make a game bigger than anything we've ever imagined. Something most people in the industry say is impossible. Now there's Mark Hamill and a large cast of stars relying on this 90 million dollars - who …
You know what scares me is the fact that I feel like Star Citizen is underfunded. I do feel like 90 million dollars is a lot of money but I don't think it's enough to come close to what they are promising.
Take this into account. World of Warcrafts…
Phaserlight said:
http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2009/02/parable_of_a_chinese_farmer_ho.html:
A Chinese farmer gets a horse, which soon runs away. A neighbor says, "That's bad news." The farmer replies, "Good news, bad news, who can…
erictlewis said:
They might have made a boatload of money, but they have darn little to show for it. I tried to play what they have but for some reason the game hated my mouse, and the joystick that I bought, and was forced to rebind a lot of …
jmcdermottuk said:
I can't see any benefit to SC failing. I'm sure everyone who has put money into it would be quite upset if it all comes to nothing, I know I would be.
Regardless, if SC did fail it wouldn't really matter too much if any kind…
CrazKanuk said:
Dracheir said:
CrazKanuk said:
Dracheir said:
Gaming.Rocks said:
Pepeq said:
Simply put... I don't want to see ANY crowdfunded games become a success. It's a bad precedence. We, th…
CrazKanuk said:
Dracheir said:
Gaming.Rocks said:
Same wrong statement over and over.
Developers never asked the public to alpha test a game for them. They are professionals for this task. Alpha access as a part of founders p…
CrazKanuk said:
Dracheir said:
Gaming.Rocks said:
Pepeq said:
Simply put... I don't want to see ANY crowdfunded games become a success. It's a bad precedence. We, the consumers, should not be writing the paychecks …
Gaming.Rocks said:
Dracheir said:
I was comparing that an entity taking the money from people for investments/stocks is governed by special auditing commissions: Securities and Exchange Commission
I don't know why you'd be …
Gaming.Rocks said:
Pepeq said:
Simply put... I don't want to see ANY crowdfunded games become a success. It's a bad precedence. We, the consumers, should not be writing the paychecks of the game developers et al in advance of any pr…
Gaming.Rocks said:
Dracheir said:
The government does review most investment companies thoroughly with an entire entity formed under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. I wish we had a similar entity for Kickstarters.
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Gaming.Rocks said:
Dracheir said:
Let me be clear, I think that many of us in the gaming industry are gullible. We are often times blinded by the need to have the escapism we once had in whatever title brought us to love MMORPGs. Wheth…
mklinic said:
To frame my response, in reply to the subject: I consider non-delivery of a product as 'failure'. If a delivered product isn't to my personal tastes, I don't necessarily consider that a failure.
That out of the way, I don't thi…
Kyleran said:
How many people went to jail over the 38 Studios fiasco, none I think.
As long as CR shows he made a legitimate attempt to deliver the game it won't matter if 10% of the KS funding went to him and his family as part of their sala…
Distopia said:
Vrika said:
Distopia said:
You are protected from lies, committing fraud is against the law. Committing fraud in such a manner is highly public. You leave a trail from start to finish. ON top of that there's a g…
Let me be clear, I think that many of us in the gaming industry are gullible. We are often times blinded by the need to have the escapism we once had in whatever title brought us to love MMORPGs. Whether it be Ultima, EQ, whatever.
These promises t…
scorpex-x said:
It is impossible for Star citizen to fail at this point, there are too many people that want that game and are willing to throw money at it.
Unless you mean it launches and it's not the best game ever made? in which case, that…
Gdemami said:
Dracheir said:
No, protecting me from lies, deceit, and fraud. When I open my wallet and give money based on promises and a deadline if it isn't fulfilled people should be punished.
Just like the Washington state Attorney …
Gdemami said:
Dracheir said:
That's exactly how I see it. Unless and until something catastrophic happens we won't get any sort of legislation to protect us.
It's just like gun control, etc. Something crazy happens and then politicians …