Shame, the game looked pretty good. Oh well, one game less to clock up my backlog.

Kickstarter is such a rip off for backers.

At the same time though, it is pure sex for project starters. Too bad this didn't get funded though.

I should certainly hope so.

If not, i've got a few scams to cook up...

Normally when people invest in a product, they expect to make a profit. Donate $500 and you expect $750 back. With KS, the funders only get a fraction back of what they put in. Donate $500 and get your name in the game? lol.

Kickstarter does have project goals to protect funders but that protection only works with certain projects, the ones kickstarter was designed for. Today a guy can set the goal to $100,000 to make a game, spend all the money, realize it takes more money, and say "sorry."

You dont get charged unless the project gets funded.  Kickstarter's Terms of Use require creators to fulfill all rewards of their project or refund any backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill.

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter+basics?ref=faq_nav#Acco

Really not a surprise after the first Kickstarter failed. A shame though since it looks like they already wasted quite a bit of money on that project.

This really wasn't the right game for Kickstarter. People invest in Kickstarter projects when they have trust and confidence in the team behind the game. I don't think anyone had any confidence in Dyack and the remnants of Silicon Knights.

why don't they just go to a publisher

Because it's a 'spiritual' successor to Eternal Darkness a game with a devoit cult following but not a lot of sales.  Because it's main audience would be on WiiU (which 3rd party publishers consider mostly dead) and because the gameplay looked very dated.  

In short - no publisher would touch it.

Shame I would have loved to have seen it.

Means either that both campaigns sucked or that not enough people cared. Probably even both.