Can we blame Nicalis for this? What is up with them?
Inthink pc is still comingWhat no PC? This isn't good....
*kickstarts game for Wii U*
*potentially cancels Wii U version*
"It makes sense!"
I mean, I get it, but this is a small project.Dude, people already bought the game through Kickstarter. It was funded as a Wii U game.
Still on steamdb under old name https://steamdb.info/app/260830/history/What no PC? This isn't good....
Why cancel it for PC? It's a god damn Unity game.
I'd still like to see a finished version on there but...the Kickstarter was made when the Wii U was still viable. It is no longer viable.
Imo those versions are just delayed, i mean i can understand the cancellation of the wiiu version, but the pc one too? No, imo ps4 and xb1 are just the priority.
I will be so happy, the day Nicalis goes bankrupt. What a shit and incompetent company they are.
Honestly, I think it's a fair assumption considering how bad their track record has been, especially recently. That's the story I'm going to believe until we hear otherwise..
Nicalis gonna Nicalis. Why would anyone give that shit company the benefit of the doubt. They have never surprised me in a positive way.
I've not been following up on what Nicalis apparently fucked up recently. Could anyone give me a brief summary?Spiral Insanity said:Can we blame Nicalis for this? What is up with them?
100% sure we can and I will until proven otherwise. (Boy, I hope it hasn't been proven otherwise already)
I agree that with a few exceptions, for all games not published by Nintendo, cancelling a Wii U version is probably a smart business move.
Even smarter would have been not taking money under false pretenses with promises that you can't keep. If you are not certain a game will release on a platform, don't promise that it will and then take money for people based on those promises.
This is pretty basic stuff.
Even assuming that's true (and it's a big IF, since it's a small project it could be argued it would likely require less copies to break even, and that's ignoring the fact they had a kickstarter funding), it still doesn't make sense to cancel the PC version as well.I'd still like to see a finished version on there but...the Kickstarter was made when the Wii U was still viable. It is no longer viable.
Even assuming that's true (and it's a big IF, since it's a small project it could be argued it would likely require less copies to break even, and that's ignoring the fact they had a kickstarter funding), it still doesn't make sense to cancel the PC version as well.
So if im getting this right this game was supposed to go out 2 years ago, and it was funded with a kickstarter for PC and Wii U, and i guess ps4 and xbox one were added later as strech goals; and now that game its getting cancelled for the platforms it was funded originally but still releasing for the ones that werent in the kickstarter
This sounds like such a gigantic scam that im going to guess its going to be entirely cancelled or someone trolled them and changed that info
What i dont understand its why people say that it makes sense to drop Wii U when it was funded for that
PS4 and Xbox One were never stretch goals. In fact they were never mentioned at all until now.
Not even as stretch goals. PS4 and Xbone versions have nothing to do with the kickstarter, so financing those with the kickstarter money is very close to a pyramidal scheme in my view.
Kickstarter doesn't mean that you pre-oder a game but fund a project. And PS4&One make more sense than WiiU at this point in time. But I expect that there will be a PC-version some months after the console version.
Not fulfilling the promises you made to your customers is much more dangerous.I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation but...continuing to work on a Wii U game at this point in time when you're such a small operation could be dangerous.
Is it? I agree it doesn't make sense but I imagine it'll be more successful on PS4 anywaylack of PC is suicide.
No driving game is perfect on Wii U with those digital triggers. Sorry.Noooooooooooooo !
It was so perfect for those platforms =(
http://who.is/whois/angelcomm.net
http://who.is/whois/nicalis.com
Looking things up, angelcomm.net is registered through Google, and nicalis.com is registered through GoDaddy. While not uncommon for people to have domains registered through different registrars, it's still unusual.
angelcomm.net has WHOIS privacy, so hard to tell who actually owns the domain. nicalis.com shows the registrant as Jerry Throckmorton. Trying to look him up, I found his LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-throckmorton-4a169a97
And it appears he left Nicalis in 2014. Whether or not he still controls the domain, or Nicalis has yet to update the WHOIS information (pretty common for domains to have outdated contact info) is hard to say.
However, I think the most telling sign here is the blog updates on each site.
http://angelcomm.net/blog
Last post was on February 5, 2015.
http://blog.nicalis.com/
Last post was May 10, 2016
So, between the two, I'd trust the information on nicalis.com moreso than angelcomm.net. Just sayin'.
https://youtu.be/RpjHlBvTCck?t=2s
The lower-right corner shows the supposed new name in a video that was posted a year ago.
And that UI, yikes.
Well, it's a 90's arcade racer. Look at the menus of Daytona USA or Sega Rally.
Kickstarter doesn't mean that you pre-oder a game but fund a project. And PS4&One make more sense than WiiU at this point in time. But I expect that there will be a PC-version some months after the console version.