Pemalite said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
I get your argument, but it is flawed. You are trying to say that money from sales can be defined as a financial asset, and therefore can be defined as capital. Under that definition though, a huge swath of games can be defined as crowdfunded. For Example: Super Mario 64 was "Crowdfunded" from the sales of Super Mario World.
|
False.
People (Crowd) are investing in digital items/goods/services.
Cloud Imperium Games is using the capital (Funding) that they have accrued from those transactions and have used it to directly fund the development of the current title... And not a future "maybe" title (Which your analogy pertains to). - Which they have been 100% transparent about from the beginning.
Cloud Imperium Games is still crowd funding, it actually hasn't stopped since it's Kickstarter campaign, only difference now is that it shifted the crowfunding to it's own platform rather than Kickstarters.
Every buck made from people investing in the game goes towards the current games development and not some what-if future title that no one knows about until it's announced.
|
Whether or not it is a future maybe title doesn't affect whether it is "crowdfunded" or not. All that matters is that the money came from a large group of individuals. At least if we take your frankenstein interpretation of investopedia's definition to heart. Now that that no longer works, you're moving the goalpost. You've added further requirements to your own special definition. But let's work with your special definition further. Under your definition of "crowdfunding" Skyrim's expansions were "crowdfunded" with sales of the base game. Also, under your definition of "crowdfunding" PUBG is crowdfunded by it's sales. No matter which way you slice it CIG's marketing department is full of BS. Even using your special definition, they are not the most successful "crowdfunding" campaign ever, because under your special definition there are a crapton of games with more successful "crowdfunding".
But anyway, go ahead and keep adding things to your own definition until Star Citizen somehow matches what you want it to be.
