Ninja Scooter
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Inafune has got pretty good connections for a game creator.
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Red Ash The Kalkanon Incident (PS4/XB1) development to proceed with Fuze Etertainme
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TheBaldEmperor
Member
Getting a deal in less than a month was quite a feat, though. Props to Inafune and the team I guess.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
And this is where shit gets sketchy. They need a massive update to clarify 'content', and fast.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Additionally, they're basically just writing the entire kickstarter off now.
There's no way it hits $800k in four days. They can't touch any of the money without hitting that goal. So this is just them admitting "This is a mistake but we had a contingency plan in case this fails."
Which, uh, I'm not sure any lessons were learned here.
There's no way it hits $800k in four days. They can't touch any of the money without hitting that goal. So this is just them admitting "This is a mistake but we had a contingency plan in case this fails."
Which, uh, I'm not sure any lessons were learned here.
SolidSnakex
Member
Nah good for them I guess, the more games the better.
I hope it turns out to be a good game, they have my attention.
Well, the director was responsible for Tron Bonne, so it should be fantastic. It really seems that Inafune's involvement has really become a negative for the project in terms of public perception.
The game is releasing until 2017. That about says it all for the Wii U version.
Yeah.
I'm torn 50/50 between "Let's just make this Kickstarter and people will throw money at us!" and "This project will already happen due to these funds this company gave us, but let's just make a Kickstarter campaign full of bizarre stretch goals and dry those suckers dry anyway!", though.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Why even keep the Kickstarter up? They're not going to reach their funding goal, especially since I suspect backers will pull out their pledges en masse once they see this news, so they're not going to get any money from it anyway.
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
There are no brakes on this crazy train.
Cheat Code
Member
So instead of Infanue rethinking his strategy with the game and it's presentation with the Kickstarter completely failing, it's gonna carry on the same and be completely fucking shit?
Ninja Scooter
Member
the Wii U will be dead and buried by the time this thing comes out.
Crimson_Gold
Member
But I backed this. I want cool blue weapons to show that I was a supporter
Fuze Entertainment is a fuckin' weird company if you look at their Linkedin page and website.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuze-game-co-ltd-peking
http://www.fuzegame.tv/index.php
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fuze-game-co-ltd-peking
http://www.fuzegame.tv/index.php
People really need to let it go with that kind of shit.
samuraidino
Member
While its not unusual for a KS to have external funding,it is unusual for a KS to basically change from a means to fund the initial game so its at a point where they can get external funding/Publisher support, to a game thats being funded anyway and the KS is now the extra support....
The whole Kickstarter campagin for this has been an absolute shit show.
Except this one isn't cancelling their kickstarter....
You don't get millions in funding without giving something major up, at the very least huge chunks of the royalties (probably needing to be repaid in full before Comcept sees anything).
People shouldn't view this as shady, I'm sure they much would have preferred an enthusiastic crowd funding method but you gotta do what you gotta do and this is a good fallback, hope the game is awesome.
Also interesting to see Fuze support cited as the reason for the PS4/XBone port, what's their angle with that? Fuze is known for making a new console for the Chinese market and partnering with tons of devs to bring their games to the platform.
People shouldn't view this as shady, I'm sure they much would have preferred an enthusiastic crowd funding method but you gotta do what you gotta do and this is a good fallback, hope the game is awesome.
Also interesting to see Fuze support cited as the reason for the PS4/XBone port, what's their angle with that? Fuze is known for making a new console for the Chinese market and partnering with tons of devs to bring their games to the platform.
Nah good for them I guess, the more games the better.
I hope it turns out to be a good game, they have my attention.
man. best use of the gif I've yet seen.
I just want the 2nd part of the 3rd level to be unlocked. Whatever it takes to make that happen, just tell me who to kill.
... Wii U will be fucking dead before this comes out. People should try get them to make a NX version instead.
Well yeah, but still sucks for people who wanted it there. Especially cause of that stupid voting part in the first place.
MichaelFassbender
Member
This is seems incredibly wack to spring on people with 4 days to go. This is just gonna confuse everyone (God knows I'm confused).
I wonder if this will lead to more backers who are confident that at least SOMETHING will be made, or will it lead to less because "fuck it, you're already getting money from somewhere". In any case, I think when this is all said and done someone could have a field day writing a post-mortem about this Kickstarter. I never backed it, but I can't say it didn't give me plenty of reasons to keep my eyes peeled to it.
I wonder if this will lead to more backers who are confident that at least SOMETHING will be made, or will it lead to less because "fuck it, you're already getting money from somewhere". In any case, I think when this is all said and done someone could have a field day writing a post-mortem about this Kickstarter. I never backed it, but I can't say it didn't give me plenty of reasons to keep my eyes peeled to it.
This is hilarious because this was posted yesterday:
Someone told me they thought I was being sarcastic! LOL.
I would never give this guy a red cent, and he doesn't need it either. Sorry. I'm sure I'm wrong for some reason.
The website has an English version, you can switch it in the top right. Do it and go to the products page and prepare to laugh your ass off. There's a "story" thing where someone who I'm guessing is the CEO says he was upset by the ban of game consoles in China and wants to release his own with "real" games on it and disparages the advent of mobile games.
http://www.fuzegame.tv/e/product.php
Yeah. Plenty of kickstarters are there purely for getting more content at times with the most well known example being Divinity: Original Sin I believe. At this point, I'm honestly just glad we're getting the game.
Apparently, Inafune is really, really good at negotiations.
Well, Inafune proved me wrong, he really was serious about making this game. And he got dem biz moves.
I don't know how to feel about this business right now. I think, at the very least, they should immediately cancel the current Kickstarter. That's what literally every KS game that has found funding in the middle of its campaign done.
If they really want to play the KS game, they should launch a new one when they have a real game to show. The purpose of the new kickstarter would be to expand the content of a guaranteed game and for people to have a chance to get the game at discounted price, along with getting proper goodies. No more of this paying $79 for a physical release garbage. I think they would fare much better. At this point, why would anyone pledge for this? There's four days left and they've have to completely restructure everything. This won't make anyone pledge. Certainly not me.
I don't know how to feel about this business right now. I think, at the very least, they should immediately cancel the current Kickstarter. That's what literally every KS game that has found funding in the middle of its campaign done.
If they really want to play the KS game, they should launch a new one when they have a real game to show. The purpose of the new kickstarter would be to expand the content of a guaranteed game and for people to have a chance to get the game at discounted price, along with getting proper goodies. No more of this paying $79 for a physical release garbage. I think they would fare much better. At this point, why would anyone pledge for this? There's four days left and they've have to completely restructure everything. This won't make anyone pledge. Certainly not me.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Businessman pulling in funds from outside sources because he failed to extract them from fans. Shocking.
At least fans won't wind up out of their money.
Tell me this isn't some of the shadiest shit ever pulled by a major game Kickstarter.
At least fans won't wind up out of their money.
Tell me this isn't some of the shadiest shit ever pulled by a major game Kickstarter.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Good. Felt like a Kickstarter was unnecessary as is.
Wait...I am little confused here. Originally, the plain for them was use the Kalkanon Incident for the Kickstarter and the 'full' game they wanted to do unique for the Kickstarter.
So, does this mean that the Kickstarter game will be coming out first through this publisher and the full game they had in the plans will still be coming but come out latter and/or be rolled into the Kalkanon Incident.
At least Concept crawled out of the hole they dug for themselves with the Kickstarter (with it not looking like it will hit funding) and the game is coming
. I really love the look, style and ideas behind the Legends series, so a similar game like that will be fantastic to see come to reality .
Hope that the game will be a great one and that Red Ash is the end of Inafune Kickstarters; its clear that he can work with publishers for games and products, so they don't need to use the Kickstarter platform for future games.
So, does this mean that the Kickstarter game will be coming out first through this publisher and the full game they had in the plans will still be coming but come out latter and/or be rolled into the Kalkanon Incident.
At least Concept crawled out of the hole they dug for themselves with the Kickstarter (with it not looking like it will hit funding) and the game is coming
. I really love the look, style and ideas behind the Legends series, so a similar game like that will be fantastic to see come to reality . Hope that the game will be a great one and that Red Ash is the end of Inafune Kickstarters; its clear that he can work with publishers for games and products, so they don't need to use the Kickstarter platform for future games.
Yes, that would be one of the things I said.
spindoctor
Member
So they now have a publisher to fully fund the game but they still want the Kickstarter money anyway?
Ricerocket
Member
Cool so he can get someone to fund his game even when it's failing hard. You'd thnk he could have done that before hand?
