Casino MMO Chumba World is given the boot on crowdfunding website Kickstarter four days into its campaign for unknown reasons.
Australian startup Virtual Gaming Worlds (VGW) today announced it’s secured $2.5 million in Australian dollars (about $2.6 million USD) in a first round of venture funding one month after its game was kicked off crowdfunding website Kickstarter.
I'd kickstart a re-imagining of Coke Music.
Edit: Well whaddya know? http://cokestudios.net/
Virtual Gaming Worlds has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Chumba World, a free-to-play massively multiplayer online game that lets you create and monetize your very own virtual gambling den.
Weird, I though Kickstarter loved gambles.
That was fast!
If it's gambling, they're already taking everyone's money.
While Kickstarter's reasoning for taking this game down is still not entirely clear, I for one do not feel that any sort of gambling "game," and I use that term loosely, is deserving of crowd funding.
Think about it. As a consumer, you're not getting a "finished" product that is then yours to keep and do with whatever you choose like you would with a videogame or a book or a movie. It is a product that requires you to continually throw your hard-earned money at it once it is completed, which seems to go against the whole idea of a "project" funded via Kickstarter. So unfortunately for the developers of Chumba World, I do not feel sympathy.