| Ruler said: the same could be asked why they dont crow-funding their niche titles like Konami could have made with Castlevania or Contra. They are too proud for that i think |
Although it could seem a strange qualm, I suspect you're right. While even talented devs, including famous ones and golden age stars, have no problems resorting to crowdfunding to start new projects, particularly if they are independent, or turn so again after having belonged to larger publishers for some time, take Chris Roberts with Star Citizen for example, it looks like big established publishers fear crowdfunding could belittle their image. I'd say they should see the issue from another point of view: particularly if crowdfunding is done to have just a port, not to fund a whole project, it could be seen as a service on-demand and nothing that could tarnish a good publisher's image. Haters would hate them in both cases anyway (not a publishers' exclusive, BTW, there are also haters that respect only money and just love huge publishers with lots of it and hate all indies unless they give up independence and accept to be taken over by big publishers), might as well make happy non-haters ready to fund a port and buy the game.
