Sony launches crowdfunding platform

[Cloudman]

Ruler said:

Cloudman said:
Oh goodness, I didn`t think it`d get this far with crowdfunding. Now that Sony is dipping their toes into crowdfunding, it has me worried that more big companies might follow suit, and who knows what else could happen. Possibly consumers having to show interest by backing projects instead of companies trying to sell consumers their products... I don`t like that in order for Sony to give their employees more freedom to take risks, that consumers have to show it with money. Why not let employees have some of that freedom without the crowdfunding? Higher ups can listen to these ideas and make a decision on whether to further the idea or not, and not with crowd funding... Or maybe just share the idea openly with people and hear their opinions on it. Just... not this crowdfunding thing, please.

I feel this is possibly telling the condition of the company if they are opening crowdfunding to take risks on more innovative ideas...

first you say Sony is a big cooperation then you turn around saying they are poor? Trust me this is a great concept and its allready praised by many in the Bussines Media, if Sony built its own Kickstarter platform this could be huge for them.

 

I think crowdfunding is better than what we have now.

For example. Look at EA whos closing down Maxis and shutting down the C&C free to play game without even asking the consumers? So this is the better model than crowdfunding? And Nintendo could also ask if people want to have another metroid or eathbound? I dont see these games happening currentley despite people saying they want them for the 1000ths of times since years.

I don`t mean to say Sony is a big company, but also poor, but Sony in general is seem as one, and should be able to fund any ideas they may have or not, so sony opening crowdfunding to take risks sounds like a very weird thing to me. Essentially every thing they do is a risk, even if good sales are likely happen or not, so I don`t see why consumers should be needed to back some of the risk. That should be on the company to do. It is a business, afterall. So I don`t think crowdfunding should be okay for big companies to use, sorry. I only see it for people who don`t have other means to fund any ideas they may have. If companies have the funds to do so, they should.

EA closing down Maxis and shutting down the C&C game isn`t relatable to crowdfunding. EA took risks in funding them and they ended up doing terribly, due to poor and questionable decisions they made with them (more so with Simcity than with C&C. I don`t know the situation with that game). Consumers already gave their responses by not purchasing and criticizing the game. And it`s EA`s decision to shut down smalller groups, or try again, not consumers. With the case of the C&C game, it sounds like it was rocky, with some people divided between the game having potential, and some commenting it was not good, so EA possibly took those responses and decided to cancel it, feeling it was not worth investing. If they did, they could have decided to continue the project anyway, but it should not come to crowdfunding as a means to save it, especially if EA didn`t deem it worthwhile themselves.

Risks have been done since way before, some being successful, and some not, but it should not come down to consumers having to help with the funding of the game, or any product for that matter. That is only for those who have no other means to do so.

As for games like Metroid, Earthbound, and other wanted older games, it seems they are listening, and could be trying to bring them back, but we`ll have to wait and see. There is the new metroid game, which may not be the game people want, but sounds like it has potential to be good, and the last game was in 2010, so a proper metroid game could be in the works. Earthbound will likely never continue, as that call is likely up to Itoi, and not Nintendo.