NoFaceNico
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I liked the idea of kickstarter. Now look what has become of it.
Well, actually it hasn't really changed all that much. Fans of ideas that publishers won't touch and products that are too stupid for even Sky Mall to feature get to fund and take on a disproportionate amount of risk in exchange for consistently late, over-promising rewards.
Of course the people behind Kickstarter ideas are competent and able to deliver, that's what they said when they took your money so it might be true, right? But even Kickstarters from "Big" names can fail. Out of the four big Kickstarter games we've had recently, I feel like one of them will fail. As in catastrophic failure where nothing is ever delivered and the creator has to put on his best BP Oil face and say "Sorry. Backer beware. Kickstarter is not a store." Which will it be? Yooka-Laylee? Shenmue? Bloodstained? Or Red Ash? My vote goes for Red Ash. At best it's going to squeak past its goal and that's incredibly dangerous for a game like this that's hiding behind it's stretch goals.