Sony launches crowdfunding platform

[FunFan]

Aeolus451 said:

FunFan said:
Crowdfunding was supposed to give a chance to anyone with a great idea to develop said idea. Of course that implies you don't have the resources to do it.

Big corporations doing crowdfunding are only looking to exploit it. To have customers pay most, if not all of the dev costs while the publishers reap the benefits and the devs are hardly paid.

It is too easy for publishers to make projects hostages of the system. I can easily see CapCom putting Operation Raccoon City 2 on crowdfunding then telling the fans they are gauging interest in the RE series and a Resident Evil 8 crowdfunding won't happen unless Operation Raccoon City 2 crowdfunding is a success.

Popularity isn't equal to quality, and popular IPs can easily overshadow new ones. Many interesting ideas are going to be buried in favor of crowdfunding the hundred Naruto fighter which is exactly the same as the 99th but now Naruto has a new form with extra tails.

Pandoras Box has been opened. Expect many other Companies to exploit crowdfunding too.

I take it that you didn't read the OP. You're talking about games which have nothing to do with this. 

Probably because I am talking about hypotetical scenarios (hint: the games I mentioned don't even exist)?  You on the other hand seem unable to see outside the box and the posible ramifications that can come from this venue. Unable to see "the OP" with a critical eye.

It doesn't matter if Saint Sony is offering the most honorable and fair crowfunding platform ever. Other companies will be looking at it, taking notes. Studying how successful this venture is with particular emphasis on how much advantage Sony can take from its fans.  If they see they can get away with their own crowfunding shegganigams they will jump on the bandwagon using whatever crowfunding platform is available to them, or making their own. And lets be honest here, we are talking about Sony and its fans. The outcome is obvius.