Colin Gilzean, producer on the recently-funded turn-based strategy title Battle Worlds: Kronos, has told IncGamers that the financially well-off have no business putting their games on Kickstarter or other crowd-funding platforms.
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Battle Worlds: Kronos is a strategy game for the Nintendo Switch that never really figures out what it wants to be or how to do it.
WTMG's Thomas Medina: "Battle Worlds: Kronos attempts to bring classic turn-based strategy to the Switch, but suffers from quantity over quality."
I am in full agreement here. I've become disgusted with some publisher's intentions of utilizing Kickstarter or other crowdsourcing mechanisms to take money from consumers as a way to cover development costs and reap the benefits of future sales.
Indie-start ups and individuals who really need the cash and can't secure it from venture capitalists or other sources are the only people who should seek the refuge of Kickstarter.