Project Cars for Wii U Officially Cancelled

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Zappykins said:

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.

Kickstarter is a place to invest in a start or initiative, not to own something (hence the name). As long as initiative was taken and the money was used to progress on the project, I believe it is fine to leave it hanging if the resources weren't enough.

Example: let's say I got $3000 of kickstarter to make a game, and of that $3000, I pay a programmer $2000 to help me. If the money isn't enough to continue the game after I payed the developer, I can't exactly ask him for a refund to give back to the backers. That's not me scamming you guys, that's just me not having the resources to continue