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Cerebralbore101 on 15 December 2017
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Pemalite said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

I just looked it up. They only funded 2.1 million through kickstarter. So yeah, they've been counting the microtransactions as part of the "crowdfunding" for this game. That's how they are able to say the game was funded for over 100 million or whatever. It's nothing but a bunch of marketing lies. 

How it is a lie when they are using the sale of those digital goods to build the game? It's not like they haven't been upfront about where their revenue is coming from, they have actually been extremely transparent.

That's not crowdfunding though, it's sales. They bill this game as the record holder for crowdfunding, in order to generate more hype. When you say a game was crowdfunded for 150 million, that brings up images of an out of this world wildly successful kickstarter campaign. In reality they are just making money off of early access sales and a ridiculous pricing model. 

The cycle goes like this...

1. Sell MTS to generate revenue. 

2. Claim that revenue as "crowdfunded" when it's really just sales. 

3. Sell more MTS based on the hype generated by the "crowdfunded" lie. 

4. Repeat the above as long as you possibly can. Never release your game.