Why I'm not happy about the Shenmue III Kickstarter

[DanneSandin]

Tachikoma said:

DanneSandin said:

What I'm saying is that this could lead to more similar projects where major publishers don't want to fund a game, so they let us gamers do it instead. And that's not how things should go done

Why isn't it?, it's not like the people who fund these games don't want them and get nothing in return, a large portion of the people finding Shenmue 3 's kickstarter for example, will be getting the eventual game for the price they paid in funding, which is often notably lower than the eventual retail price.

If publishers did this for more games, we would see an increase in games people actually want being made, and a decrease in the terrible ones wasting the developers/publishers time.

And innovation would suffer for it, and the games might not even be good since the devs already gotten their money.