People calling this kickstarter "shoddy", arguing that every other developer seeks an actual publisher to finance their games, need to consider why Precursor had to resort to crowdfunding in the first place.
Eternal Darkness is a game that not many people played, but one that was loved by a lot of the people who actually did play it. Hell, even a lot of the people who refuse to back this project up actually desire a spiritual successor to the game in question; they just don't have any trust left in Dyack and his company. The problem is, as much as the (few) people who played it loved Eternal Darkness, this was a project that sold badly even in its day, back when games were much cheaper to make, and when they didn't need the insane amounts of money that they need nowadays just to break even.
People tell themselves that this project is doomed from the start, that no good can come out of it, that Dyack and his company are not to be trusted after their failures and mistakes from recent years. They also argue that the very fact that Precursor Games is looking to get this game made by crowdfunding, instead of looking for a publisher who believes in and funds this project, is shoddy as fuck. But how could we have expected any different? Seriously. Let's ask ourselves: which publisher exactly would back a project like an Eternal Darkness sequel in this day an age, where Call of Duty clones and other tried and true formulas that appeal to the mass market are the only viable games to fund? Even if Precursor Games had an impeccable track record, who exactly would throw the money to them or to any other developer out there to finance a project like this? Almost no one would. And still, we somehow consider Precursor's inability to find a publisher "shoddy"? Please.
I think some people here need to ask themselves whether this project is really as "doomed to fail" as they believe, or if this is more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything else. If a big chunk of the people who actually did like Eternal Darkness refuse to help fund this project because of Precursor's track record, of course the game is not going to get made. But that says very little about Precursor's supposed "inability" to put a game together.
