Project Cars for Wii U Officially Cancelled

[Zappykins]

Ka-pi96 said:

Aielyn said:

Ka-pi96 said:
False advertising? They aren't selling a product, they are selling an investment. Investments don't always work out the way you want them to...

Once again, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. They're selling a product. If it was an investment, you'd get returns on the investment. This is a product - "pledge $x, get y reward". Not "pledge $x, get y% cut of profits" or "pledge $x, get $x*y in return if the game achieves a certain profit". It's a product.

And "false advertising" also covers services, including investments. It's how people can sue someone who sells fake investment properties, for instance.

You do get returns on the investment, a copy of the game if it releases and all of the other stuff they've been able to add into it thanks to any additional funds they received.

But Kickstarter is very clearly it's NOT an investment (I.e. you can't uses it to buy real estate properties and other things.)  So I don't know if WiiU supporters are just out of luck.

Same like the OC Riff, when they sold to Facebook supporters got a 'thanks for supporting us' but no kickback money in the billions of profit.