Crowdfunding

[Thyme]

Have you ever contributed to a crowdfunded project? If so, which one(s)?

I pledged for two music albums on PledgeMusic, Skyharbor's Guiding Lights and Twelve Foot Ninja's Outlier.

And more shamefully, I contributed on Kickstarter to the TV Tropes Revitalization Project and... Aerannis.

[TooB]

Just now, I joined Patreon for Stop Skeletons From Fighting.

I also helped with the kickstarter for Indivisible

[Nyerp]

tfw i supported a crowdfunding thing for the first time recently ([glow=black,2,300]bloodstained[/glow])

[spoiler]mfw it doesn't even look that good but i loved the portable castlevanias way back when[/spoiler]

[spoiler]mfwtfw i'm a FUCKING idiot and nostalgia is the same reason people fell for blunder number 9 [/spoiler]

oh well at least curse of the moon was good

[Samus Aran]

I also helped with the kickstarter for Indivisible

[YPrrrr]

No. Even if I'd like to I have zero faith in the polished quality of these sorts of things

[C.Mongler]

I think I pledged like 5-10 bucks for No Time to Explain because it looked heckin' funny and like it would play like Super Meat Boy with a sillier tone. This was also during Kickstarter's infancy. The first iteration of the game was kinda ass, since it was basically some flash bullshit. They later remade the entire game, and then it was okay.

I have never backed anything else.

[ME##]

No because I’m a heartless soul who doesn’t want to give some twats with a dream money lol

[FAMY2]

A friend of mine gave to make Super Troopers 2. He got a ton of promotional stuff. 

[Travis]

No because I’m a heartless soul who doesn’t want to give some twats with a dream money lol

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i simply refuse to allow myself to be crowded by some "tw@ with a dream", as david so eloquently put it, who can't be held accountable for their own stupidity, incompetence, or outright malevolence should their project turn out to be yet another obvious scam

kuckstarter, betraytreon et al.:

where irrelevant, washed-up has-been game """developers""" with wholly undeserved cult followings go to piss what little remains of their reputation away

see:

keiji inafune
peter molyfaux
tim schafer
yu suzuki (remember the shenmue campaign LOL)
chris roberts
soon, those rareware rejects making yooka laylee

there's a very good reason these guys lost their jobs with mainstream devs and were forced to go """independent""" and resort to begging on virtual street corners

and yet somehow nostalgia-drunk and misinformed """gamers""" don't realize this until they've loaded them up with millions for promising a dream they're too incompetent and dishonest to ever actually deliver

and if one can't even trust these named developers with their dollar, i'd have to be absolutely nuts to hand money over to some nameless idiot in his basement promising to make the next revolutionary indie game, lol

especially when, even if development does go perfectly smoothly after crowdfunding, i could just buy it on steam in the exceedingly unlikely event that it actually turns out to not be garbage lol

[Thyme]

especially when, even if development does go perfectly smoothly after crowdfunding, i could just buy it on steam in the exceedingly unlikely event that it actually turns out to not be garbage lol

yeah

this is how i feel about early access as well

[Kalahari Inkantation]

yeah lol

when you contribute to a kuckstarter campaign, you are betting that not only will an actual product be released at some reasonable point, and not only will that product closely resemble what's being promised, but also that the final product will actually be good

which is A LOT to assume based on the early plot drafts and basic concept art that is everything the average kuckstarter beggar has to show for himself, lol

and again, even if that does all turn out to be true, anyone could very well just buy it on steam whether they contributed or not lol

so to me it just seems like contributors to such campaigns have basically nothing to gain, and plenty to lose

yeah

this is how i feel about early access as well

early access is arguably even worse, because you're not even gambling on faith

one can easily determine whether an early access game is a piece of sh@ or not (read: 99.9% of them are) before deciding to spend a penny on it, and yet for some reason oodles of dumb gamers happily fork over fistfuls of ca$h on horrible broken messes of barely-playable games that are clearly never going to be finished, and then have the audacity to complain that they got scammed lol

[don't let's]

Volta magnetic charging adapter on indie a gogo

[Kalahari Inkantation]

anyway if you guys are still open to the idea of crowdfunding, plz consider my latest campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/973736766/the-cybermatrix-100-tu01

[don't let's]

This reminds me of all the boyah Kickstarters