| Puppyroach said: Btw, just a thought: If the Kickstarter campaign was just to gauge interest, why announce the game before the Kickstarter has begun? It seems as though Sony had decided beforehand that they would the game and used Kickstarter as a means to do a PR stunt. What if the Kickstarter hadn't reached 2mn, do people seriously think Sony then would have approached the fans and said that the game would never be released? Seriously? |
Since you conveniently ignored my post (I wonder why?), allow me to repost it for you.
I don't think you understand how often this sort of thing happens on Kickstarter. Bloodstained, Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2 have all secured outside funding in addition to the kickstarter funds. It's a very common practice for developers to use kickstarter primarily as a tool to convince investors that there's interest in the project. This isn't a Sony project. This is a Yu Suzuki project that Sony is co-funding in addition to the raised Kickstarter funds, likely in exchange for console exclusivity. They're clearly not funding the whole thing or else there wouldn't be a PC version at all.
So no, Kickstarter isn't going to remove anything.
Suzuki used Kickstarter to convince Sony (and possibly other investors) that there is market for this game and it's worth investing in. This is a very common practice that happens with a lot of crowdfunded video games. Most of them require far more than the funds they got from Kickstarter. Simply put, you're searching for a controversy that isn't there.
Sigs are dumb. And so are you!
