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Mighty No.9 Backers are starting to receive the physical edition and oh boy...
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Ban Puncher
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SirNinja
Member
Oh god...I'm familiar with the first gif but not the second. No wonder all my Fedex packages look like they've been kicked down a staircase.
AtomskEater
Member
Oh my god, the thumbs up.
Shifty
Member
And the sheepish grin from the other dude. Whoof.
Ban Puncher
Member
kaname-san
Member
one. a really crappy used one.
Iriscomeback
Member
lol It's getting a bit crowded...
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Heck yeah it was!
Still, it would have been nice if it had met all of its stretch goals. Oh well, maybe one day they'll just say whatever and add those missing goals into the game using their own funds.
Which reminds me that I should be getting news about the backer rewards for Half-Genie Hero in August.
I haven't been keeping up with post-launch support. I need to go take a look at their twitter.
While I feel bad for the backers of this embarrassing Kickstarter effort, I feel far more sympathy for the damage this disaster has inflicted on up and coming people who no longer have as vibrant a platform on which to try and make their ideas into a full product. It would be bad enough if this was just mismanagement, but nowhere has it come accross that the team even gives a shit or feels like backers are entitled to more than the absolute stingiest definition of the least they can reasonably get away with.
To have such an icon in the industry show such little regard for anyone involved, while at the same time kneecapping potential up and comers isn't just a sign of poor management or budgeting, it actually says a lot about the ethics and character of the people running it.
Just a quick look at any thread covering this game in the last few years is evidence enough of how many people have been burned by this and don't feel confident backing something in the future because of it.
To have such an icon in the industry show such little regard for anyone involved, while at the same time kneecapping potential up and comers isn't just a sign of poor management or budgeting, it actually says a lot about the ethics and character of the people running it.
Just a quick look at any thread covering this game in the last few years is evidence enough of how many people have been burned by this and don't feel confident backing something in the future because of it.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
Junior Member
To be fair capcpom screwed us harder. But inafune delivered more laughs and what the hell moments ob a single game. I am conflicted.
CecilRousso
Member
They seem to be covered by the text in the kickstarter, that the game isn't included in the box. But it's still fitting for this kickstarter, that they aren't doing what pretty much every other kickstarter managed to do.
Oh, except the Carmageddon kickstarter, that seems to have just decided that they won't send out the physical rewards at all. Because no comment.
Oh, except the Carmageddon kickstarter, that seems to have just decided that they won't send out the physical rewards at all. Because no comment.
To be fair, in terms of box alone, I'm pretty sure Shovel Knight was the same.
Now that's downright foolish, though.
Out of the loop perhaps, but what has Howard done to deserve to be part of this masterpiece?
I just noticed.
FantasticMrSnake
Member
oh god.. that would be so awkward at this point..
backer: -so.., nice game and rewards you made there
inafune: -it's better than nothing
That's a shame.
cj_iwakura
Member
And he wasn't the director.
Yeah, I don't care who is making it or what the game is. I haven't kickstarted anything since MN9 and I won't do it ever again. Sorry to everyone else that Inafune ruined that.
The whole kickstarter debacle reeked of incompetence mixed with a little bit of "fuck you."
Agreed a good recent nice lookin 2.5D example would be Samus Returns and that's on a freakin 3DS. I backed Bloodstained but i am slightly worried still, demo i played last year looked fine enough graphics wise tho still not amazing but fine enough.
Weltall Zero
Member
Crying like MN9 fans on release night.
I laughed at this way too much.
Dr. Buni
Member
That does seem to be the case, doesn't it?
They should both have gone for a pixel art look or somefin like Skullgirls/Indivisible instead of the awful awful awful 2.5 or whatever look they chose for both games.
chromatic9
Member
A fitting end,
Devilgunman
Member
The thread title is misleading, no? They never promised a physical version of the game. The kickstarter page clearly said it's a physical box plus manual and they deliver exactly that. The only fucked up thing is that the manual doesn't fit the box and how long it took for them to finally ship it.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
The box being shipped flat doesn't sound like such a bad idea. Half of them would be crushed beyond all saving otherwise. The rest of all this is pretty hilarious though.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
While true, why the hell would anyone want an empty box with no game? Like, what's the point?
R_thanatos
Member
Welcome to the world of collectors...
To display it on your shelf, it's a plain old collector's item. Empty classic boxes aren't uncommon on Kickstarter and always popular. Tbh, I think a lot of people don't realize how silly an empty box actually is until the fish it out of their mailbox.
Those backers also got a code. The box is a display piece.
It was probably inspired by the Mega Man 9 press kit, which a lot of fans were clamoring for at the time. That didn't come with a physical game either, but everyone wanted it (the cartridge-looking thing was a case for a CD of press materials).
Don't forget the USB tier/addon, that's supposed to get you a usb stick shaped like a cart that has a copy of the game on it.
Unfortunately, that's what I'm waiting for in terms of reward, and we'll see if that ever happens.
gunstarhero
Member
Fixed.
sixteen-bit
Member
lmao, what a mess.
depths20XX
Member
Seems like a clickbait thread, no?
Either that or OP didn't realize what the KS reward was.
The only ridiculous thing is how long it took them to send it out, and the manual not fitting.
Either that or OP didn't realize what the KS reward was.
The only ridiculous thing is how long it took them to send it out, and the manual not fitting.
My limited edition of A Link Between Worlds (Game exclusive here in the UK I think) was sent similar to this!
It had a delivery box which contained the game, the little chest gimmick thing, and a flattened out cardboard box that Game never bothered to assemble. Didn't bother me as such, just struck me as funny. Everything was just laid on top of the flattened box and sent in a bigger box.
It had a delivery box which contained the game, the little chest gimmick thing, and a flattened out cardboard box that Game never bothered to assemble. Didn't bother me as such, just struck me as funny. Everything was just laid on top of the flattened box and sent in a bigger box.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
she got a good settlement apparently
with that said I will definitely sue because Toyota and Toy Yoda sounds so different
"The only ridiculous things are these two very ridiculous things"
paragonpro
Banned
Yeah, im never trusting inafune again until he proves himself again. What an embarassment.
Wonder what becomes of Red Ash with Level-5 owning Comcept now
The anime for Red Ash was interesting and a Legends styled game would be amazing....but he also gave us MN9 so yeah he has a lot to prove
depths20XX
Member
Missing the point. The OP and the twitter user both seem to think it's strange that there is no physical game...