I cannot fathom how this one is still active but the comparatively less ridiculous adventure game was suspended. What a joke.
BTW, 11 backers brought in $45,000 today.
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Games under Ouya's "Free the Games" fund on Kickstarter looking suspicious
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I cannot fathom how this one is still active but the comparatively less ridiculous adventure game was suspended. What a joke.
BTW, 11 backers brought in $45,000 today.
gordon1470
Member
I feel like this sums up the current situation best:
https://twitter.com/brandonnn/status/376772137857478658
https://twitter.com/brandonnn/status/376772137857478658
Because nobody cares about OUYA and the people scamming the company. Why spend time on something 99,9% of your audience doesn't even know or care about. When time is limited, you can't make a news post about somethng which will get no hits.
SolidSnakex
Member
I could understand why its brought in so much money if the team behind it was well known or if even the game itself looked decent. But this is what it looked like in their latest preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqf2-b8Ymzw
And that's supposed to be released next Sunday. Also they're still using NFL imagery, which just isn't going to fly.
Of course, I understand that. Though that was my point, journalism shouldn't be about "getting more hits". Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread, sorry for the offtopicness.
I wouldn't say that, a lot of gaming websites has written an article on this already. Joystiq has been following and providing updates, IGN, Polygon, VG247, and Eurogamer has written initial reports.
Gamastura and Kotaku has been able to contact the devs at Girdiron Thunder to get quotes.
This is an ongoing story, and where there has been some news, it's still going to be an ongoing story especially since KS isn't going to prevent MogoTXT from collecting from their Kickstarter, and they supposedly has their game coming out next week.
I say let the news happen, and give it time.
Neuromancer
Member
FUNDED!!! And they got almost 100K more than they asked for!
Looking at the raging success of previous non-NFL licensed games such as All Pro Football and Backbreaker, I'm not surprised!
WOW!!!
I still can't believe Kickstarter is letting this pass. I did have a chuckle at some of the latest backers for Gridiron Thunder.
We got two John's, who didn't bother to give a last name, "Scott Fujita", and "S.A. Fuijta". Fujita's full name is Scott Anthony Fujita.
Look, I understand Fujita has some involvement in this, but either two things happened.
1. Fujita himself made two accounts and donated $10000 for each account for some reason.
2. MogoTXT made two separate accounts in Fujita's name.
This is pretty crazy. Its not as if Fujita's a nobody you can distance yourself from. He's personally sponsered your game! To abuse his name in this manner is digusting.
We got two John's, who didn't bother to give a last name, "Scott Fujita", and "S.A. Fuijta". Fujita's full name is Scott Anthony Fujita.
Look, I understand Fujita has some involvement in this, but either two things happened.
1. Fujita himself made two accounts and donated $10000 for each account for some reason.
2. MogoTXT made two separate accounts in Fujita's name.
This is pretty crazy. Its not as if Fujita's a nobody you can distance yourself from. He's personally sponsered your game! To abuse his name in this manner is digusting.
s_mirage
Member
Hang on a minute. Even if this didn't look shady as hell, which it does, if the game is already done what the hell would the Kickstarter money be for? If it looks like scam and smells like a scam....
Diablohead
Member
One thing KS has taught me is that it's run by people who only care for money and people who don't really care about the events that go on through their website because it's not effecting them.
immortal-joe
Member
Sweet dancing crap, this reads like a straight up con job. If the game releases and faces issue there simply has to be a response from the community; I refuse to believe everyone will just fold and look the other way.
I don't even care anymore. If Ouya can't see how obvious they're being scammed, than they deserve every dime taken from them. Either they're stupid beyond belief or they're complicit. Either way it makes their platform look even worse than it already is.
Neuromancer
Member
Or they're so desperate for games on their system, and attention, that they know these were scams but went along with them anyway.
Fictional Baltimore prosecutor Rhonda Pearlman has confirmed that nothing illegal is going on here, so lets all just sit back and enjoy this great indie football game.
YianGaruga
Banned
Fictional Baltimore prosecutor Rhonda Pearlman has confirmed that nothing illegal is going on here, so lets all just sit back and enjoy this great indie football game.
This has to be some sort of social experiement to expose OUYA and/or kickstarter.
It's just too bizarre.
Fictional Baltimore prosecutor Rhonda Pearlman has confirmed that nothing illegal is going on here, so lets all just sit back and enjoy this great indie football game.
Fictional lawyers can't even afford grammar school? There is no apostrophe in Ouyas! (and I've yet to see proof there are even plural Ouyas in existence)
Fictional Baltimore prosecutor Rhonda Pearlman has confirmed that nothing illegal is going on here, so lets all just sit back and enjoy this great indie football game.
That wording is... oddly specific. Nothing "illegal"
Neuromancer
Member
Jesus Christ. Look at her first post:
Fictional Baltimore prosecutor Rhonda Pearlman has confirmed that nothing illegal is going on here, so lets all just sit back and enjoy this great indie football game.
YianGaruga
Banned
It's about the Ouya.
Yeah... rhetorical question, I guess. But even then, that's a ton of money changing hands for all parties to just shrug their shoulders.
Terry Cavanagh just tweeted about this, highlighting the comments on here: https://www.ouya.tv/lets-talk-about-the-free-the-games-fund/
Sophie Houlden pulled her game from the Ouya store:
You have Mike Bithell (Thomas Was Alone / Volume dev) being quite critical as well.
Sounds like Ouya pissed a lot of genuine developers off with the original plan and their response after the questions was basically "deal with it".
Edit - reading the comments, it's mentioned that Terry Cavanagh pulled his games from Ouya as well.
Sophie Houlden pulled her game from the Ouya store:
Sophie Houlden said:
You have Mike Bithell (Thomas Was Alone / Volume dev) being quite critical as well.
Sounds like Ouya pissed a lot of genuine developers off with the original plan and their response after the questions was basically "deal with it".
Edit - reading the comments, it's mentioned that Terry Cavanagh pulled his games from Ouya as well.
Top Youtube comment also mentions how they stole assets from NFL Blitz. lol
I don't think Kickstarter will get anything out of this since it's obvious most pledges are fake.
YianGaruga
Banned
We don't know, but I doubt it. It's probably money that the devs put into it themselves through proxy accounts. Easiest 100% return ever, since the game is pretty much done anyway.
I think what is happening is:
1. You put up a kickstarter and join the Ouya scheme.
2. You get your friends and family to bump this to at least $50,000
3. Ouya matches your kickstarter money.
4. Profit!!!!
Ok I think I get it now, Ouya is supposed to match your kickstarter funds so they are basically using their own money to bump this way up to scam Ouya out of money. WOW.
Yeah, that's what I believe is happening - except instead of policing it's own system, Ouya is just saying - okay here's the cash.
The devs on Ouya think this is unfair because they feel that actual deserving/interesting games are being overlooked, Neverending Nightmares is an example: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infinitap/neverending-nightmares
In protest they are pulling their games from the Ouya store.
In reply to the following post below - wow, just wow.
The devs on Ouya think this is unfair because they feel that actual deserving/interesting games are being overlooked, Neverending Nightmares is an example: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infinitap/neverending-nightmares
In protest they are pulling their games from the Ouya store.
In reply to the following post below - wow, just wow.
Neuromancer
Member
Sanic
Member
hahaah that was actually published by them?
I feel bad for the legit devs that actually tried to make a go of this whole debacle.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
This is exactly what is happening. The fact it's so obvious and Ouya is just going to hand over the cash is crazy. I'm not surprised that devs feel quite insulted over the whole thing. That's probably more money than any of them have actually been able to legitimately earn through the store yet (if anyone ever earns that much). The fact that the most money earned from Ouya will be by scamming them is a pretty sad end to the Ouya story.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
Member
Can't be a scam because Ouya is happily scamming itself.
Ouya somehow warped time and space to be both the scammer and the scammee. It's the nexus of the universe. Ouya has crossed the antipodal point of the inverse event horizon's lagrange point and the only way to survive is "more cowbell" in a timeline in which cows never existed thus no cowbells
Ouya somehow warped time and space to be both the scammer and the scammee. It's the nexus of the universe. Ouya has crossed the antipodal point of the inverse event horizon's lagrange point and the only way to survive is "more cowbell" in a timeline in which cows never existed thus no cowbells
Neuromancer
Member
The comments section are brutal. This is perhaps one of the biggest PR blunders in VG history.
Family and friends of the developers.
The Super Bob
Member
This really is sad considering how Ouya could have used the money to fund indies who had geniuniely interesting games who might have actually struggled to fund their projects.
Isn't the game using NFL brandning without permission too? I know they claimed something about FIrst Ammendment rights allowing them to use it. Surely that is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Now that developers are actually pulling games they might do something about this.
Yeah it's hard to call it a scam when Ouya is essentially saying do whatever the hell you want to get the money, and then we'll double it.
Isn't the game using NFL brandning without permission too? I know they claimed something about FIrst Ammendment rights allowing them to use it. Surely that is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Now that developers are actually pulling games they might do something about this.
Yeah it's hard to call it a scam when Ouya is essentially saying do whatever the hell you want to get the money, and then we'll double it.
FunInfusedGames
Member
I suspect a lawsuit only happens in the event they actually release the game. So they might be safe.
Diablohead
Member
I wanted to love the ouya but they make it extremely hard, not a great way to rock your first year with shit like this.
And they seem to not give a shit.
I'd take a few k to get my game on the ouya sooner but I guess not now.
And they seem to not give a shit.
I'd take a few k to get my game on the ouya sooner but I guess not now.
Cymbal Head
Banned
Fictional Baltimore prosecutor Rhonda Pearlman has confirmed that nothing illegal is going on here, so lets all just sit back and enjoy this great indie football game.
I wonder what Bunk thinks about all this.