Kickstarter was not supposed to fund to gaming legends

DigitalBattle: "Kickstarter was supposed to foster new developers, artists and filmmakers. And now it’s becoming just another funding scheme for the established guys"

[V0LT]

Kickstarter is all great now but I have a feeling it won't be long before there will be abuse and milked out.

[ExitToExisT]

yeah , even i want to start a kickstarter for my ue3 video game project. $10.000 definitely wouldnt hurt me right now:)

[ZeroChaos]

Hate to say it but I agree. Basically KickStarter is for the arrogant who can't get a publisher to fund them but have blind fans who will support them.

Shame. I wanted to see new stuff.

[GamingPerson]

ummm only about 4 or 5 of the developers on kickstarter are legends everything else is from new people from what I have seen.

I don't think this guy is a legand but his game looks better than twisted metal imo. And jaffe is a legend to ps3 gamers.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

All in all. With all the day one dlc & marketing hype, dlc on the disk, rehashes, cod clones & drm.
I like the direction pc gaming is going and I support it.

Open source gaming open source publishing. Kinda.

[dedicatedtogamers]

Oh booo hooo. Those poor widdle indie devs won't be able to sell their mediocre Diablo clones, puzzle games, and RPGs. Oh the humanity!

I'd much rather put money into a game that ends up being good, whether it's indie or not.

[sjaakiejj]

"Imagine how many games could have been funded with that money, games made by new and up and coming developers. "

Being new, up and coming developers is synonymous with having a lack of funding. Most people are not willing to put money into people who haven't proven they can pull it off. These "new developers" may well be asking funding for a project that they never intend to complete, or think they can just come in and make a triple A game.

Personally, I would much rather put my money into Tim Schafer, whom I know will actually finish the project, and see it through to release.

[Series_IIa]

Kickstarter is there for anyone who has a viable creative project, regardless of status in the industry.

"Of those $3 million Schafer raised, dozens of smaller indie teams could have been funded to create games of all sorts."

That $3million wouldn't have gone to the other projects anyway you idiot... People do not just go on Kickstarter close their eyes, click on a random page and donate to that project...

[t0mmyb0y]

I agree with you man. I hope Tim's next project is Psychonauts 2. With big developers Kickstarter allows them to make the games they intended to make without the publisher telling them what they think/to change stuff.

[Dan50]

Carmageddon is getting funded through Kickstarer :)

[Enigma_2099]

Exactly. The unfortunate truth is, who's gonna blindly fund someone you've never heard of, or hasn't given you any proof they can be trusted?

Here's an idea. Try releasing a short demo of what it is you want to develop, and let people try it and see if they want to give you the money to support it...

[Venoxn4g]

I think that N-space should be funded to release survival horror Winter ... and I really want to support Suda51 so he could create a bizarre game like Killer7 or shadows of the damned (but not like a downgraded version of EA, but like it was supposed to be) and Q entertainment for a new game like REZ or Child of eden

[Alos88]

I don't think the guy who wrote tis has any idea how hard it is to get funding for a project, Tim Schafer could NOT have simply got the cash through other means, publishers weren't interested- that was the point of the project!