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It kinda does. I'm still going to buy what I like but it a game goes the Kickstarter route, my mind just tells me that it's going to be unpolished it have the bare minimum. Even indie games get placed in a higher echelon for me. At least it deals like they didn't have to compromise their vision based on financial backing and "handouts".



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Fear_Me_All said:
Hate went a company with enough $$, asking to gamer to take risk for them.... NO THX.

^this.  

putting it on a kickstarter, so the gamers funded the game they wanted to play.  but sometimes expectations wouldn't met by the gamer. and as a consumer, it is the developer/publisher to have the capital first, and do what ever it takes within budget.  So nothing is perfect in game development, there should be a budget and timeline.  Its getting frustrating if developers, pushed back due to its not perfect. or maybe it is really buggy and you failed to have the correct timeline (with adjustments in it). and now putting all those burden on the gamers who supported your project. it doesn't make sense.  if you gave those gamers game + stocks/part ownership of the game since they've invested on it.  then so be it. but just the money upfront for the game to be released. it is different.



Wasteland 2 was buggy and not as well polished as Id have liked.
Shadowrun was kinda the same.

Pillars of eternity, was actually pretty good, esp after a few patches.

I dont think its about kickstarter... its about the developers that are putting out the games.



Not really, but it certainly makes me worried.

I have had some disappointments with some Kickstarter projects, so yeah... I would be more cautious.



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No, not really. There's been a lot of games I wanted from kickstarter, such as Shovel Knight and Undertale, and some of them were rather successful. Seeing people make the games they want as well as making them fun and interesting makes me more interested. So yeah... no o:



 

              

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That's odd thinking. A professional is building the game, right. The money isn't building the game. It's only there to help the person build, or survive while building it. You shouldn't feel like like its wrong. Now quality wise. That's the only real worry.



Not really. To be honest it's the other way for me, Kickstarter allows games that wouldn't exist otherwise to be made, like the recent 3D Platformer comeback through games like A Hat in Time/Yooka-Laylee/Psychonauts 2 (Not Kickstarter, but you get the idea), so I'm all up for helping fund something that I actually want to play =P



I've supported 5 successful projects on Kickstarter (DemonWars tabletop RPG, Pier Solar HD, Yooka Laylee, Bloodstained, and Bard's Tale 4). So far the table top game (a really awesome high quality rule book and campaign guide from author RA Salvatore) and Pier Solar have been delivered. Nothing has really happened so far to make me want Kickstarter games less. The other three games on my list are all scheduled to be released in 2016 and 2017. But I'm realistic. I know they will be pushed back, just like a good portion of publisher-backed games. This is commonplace in the industry and it should always be expected.

There were some hiccups in the Pier Solar project. Mainly that the game was released digitally about a year before we got our physical copies. Not sure what the holdup was. Maybe they ran out of money and had to fund the physical releases with the sales of the digital copy. I don't know. And some backers are claiming they still haven't gotten theirs. But the fact is that I got my game (physical DRM-free PC version) and it's great. Even the base physical copy is put together well. So I can't really complain.

Regarding the other three games I have backed, I trust IGA, the former RARE guys, and The Wasteland 2 guys to get me my game and any physical rewards I deserve. If I get burned, maybe I'll change my tune. But so far so good.



Mr Puggsly said:
There is certainly a stigma from numerous Kickstarter projects thus far. Bottom line, Kickstarter is better than nothing. If Kickstarter was the only viable way to make something like Shenmue 3 happen, I'll take it.

I don't remember the last time I completely agreed to one of your comments...

But I just did.



think-man said:
ThatDanishGamer said:
Does taking a game to Kickstarter make you want it less?

No, but the the quality Kickstarter games are often to low and many of the games are only half games because they failed to reach the stretch goals.

That's the thing aswell i feel these kickstarter projects majorly under estimate the cost and time it takes to develop a game. I would only want to release something i thought was perfect 

That could be a problem for your campaign it will look very expensive compared to all the other stuff out there so your proof of concept/trailer will have to really impressive.



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