What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

Isn't Firbeball Island supposed to hit KS soon?

Well, it turns out that Nightdive Studios has put the System Shock remake on hiatus . The plan was to make a faithful recreation of System Shock; instead they got caught up in feature creep and expanding the game - neither of which the backers really wanted - in hopes of luring securing additional investor funds, which failed. Now they're mostly out of money and hope to have the game done in 18 to 24 months. I'm not so optimistic; it looks probable that I'm going to end up with my first KS cautionary tale to share.

Shame. According to that statement, it seems like they used the backers as investors that they have no responsibility towards.

I could be wrong, but don't business investors have contracts that obligate a company to them for compensation?

If true, then Kickstarter is nothing but a den of potential thieves who have no obligation to fulfill since Kickstarter washes it's hands of involvement.

Spurious.

That sucks. And it re-affirms my stance of never backing video game projects. Their failure rate is just too high.

Hotseatgames already made a passing remark, but I wanted to ask again;

Is anyone backing 'Planet Apocalypse?'

I love Cthulhu Wars. But I don't know about this one. It seems like a faster, and more accessible Kingdom Death. But I'm just not sold yet...

Meanwhile, I'm gonna be throwing money at Monolith next week for a copy of Batman.

I'm terrified at what Batman is going to cost for the all-in option.

Colorcrayons wrote: Isn't Firbeball Island supposed to hit KS soon?

An unspecified date in April. Looks like a must-buy.

stormseeker75 wrote: I'm terrified at what Batman is going to cost for the all-in option.

Indeed. I know they won't do it, but the only option I'd even be up for is a minis-only pledge. This would be a great way to score a bunch of Batman minis relatively cheaply.

I just don't have much faith in this. I am thinking it will suffer from one of the fundamental problems that plagued Conan. Namely, you have someone who gets to play as Batman, and everyone else is Not-Batman. Conan also featured very sketchy scenario design. The game was so half-baked that I sold my pledge after only playing 3 times.

I think they said the all-in is somewhere around $350. Which is lower than I thought it'd be.

charlest wrote: I think they said the all-in is somewhere around $350. Which is lower than I thought it'd be.

One car payment. Not bad.