BraLoD said:
Trunkin said:
My problem with kickstarter is that it's like pre-ordering a game literally years before release, without the option to cancel. In the case of most games, you can justify it because they're small time and they actually NEED the kickstarter money to fund development. Shenmue III clearly already has some backing from a mega corporation, so it feels kinda like a ripoff to be running a kickstarter for it.
I mean, announcing a Kickstarter during an E3 conference of all things. I never thought I'd see the day.
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They have a refund security if the game doesn't happen, right?
Cancelling after donating would be cruel to be honest, as one time the guy can have the money to do it and all of a sudden he can just lose it.
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It's worth than that. If you're halfway trough development and have to refund people, but have already spent part of the money, it's full bankruptcy and if it's an indie developper (in belgian's law at least) the debt will be in the developper's name.
With that said most of the time kickstarter is only part of the money and a motivation for banks and developpers to invest in a game they wouldn't otherwise funded, so the devs wouldn't be that screwed.
