Mr. Tibbs, on 22 April 2016 - 10:03 PM, said:
the same way the Castlevania guy's pitch was him hanging out in a castle
Ah yeah, I had forgotten about that. I was very excited about this but now that we've seen the first images and videos, I can't stand the graphical style.
But it is indeed a good example alike the game ITT.
I hate this new way of using crowdfunding. Crowdfunding was made as a way to fund a project without having to go with the common investors, and their demands.
Now, it's become a tool to convince those investors to back up a project. I feel like the investors don't do their jobs (they are supposed to estimate the risk/reward ratio of a project...) and that the "crowd" is getting screwed.
It's what happened to Bloodstained, IIRC they pleged 10 times more than they asked for, something like more than 5million dollars, even though it was just supposed to be a small amount to convince investors.
So in the end with such a sum, they shouldn't even need to be backed up by those investors, but I can bet they are anyway.
Are they really going to use up all that way for that one game?