Shadow of the Eternals developer launches $1.35 million Kickstarter, confusing fans since it runs concurrently with their $1.5 million Paypal crowdfunding campaign.
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Shadow of the Eternals has had quite a tumultuous development cycle, ending in its indefinite delay last September. Today, we’ve heard that the project isn’t properly “dead”, but we shouldn’t expect anything new to come out about it any time soon.
I hope this game lives to see the light of day, the horror genre could always use a new title.
This game would be good for Wii U because it really shows off the graphical capabilities of the console.
Fingers crossed Nintendo is paying attention. It wouldn't cost them very much to help publish this game.
"Precursor Games has had a couple of stabs at crowdfunding Shadow of the Eternals, which is pitched as a spiritual successor to the GameCube classic Eternal Darkness and was aiming for a Wii U release."
-Andy Green, Nintendo Life
I hope they figure out some way to get this to come out. Preferably on something other than Wii U. It's like they were trying to make the Kickstarter fail.
good lord how long will they drag this on. its unfortunate but this game just doesnt have enough of an audience
Eternal Darkness wasn't really a massively popular game, it barely sold 400k copies worldwide. To make a spiritual successor of it and expect many people to pay in advance, that isn't realistic.
Precursor Games, developer of unsuccessful Kickstarter candidate Shadow of the Eternals, has disbanded.
this is a good example where releasing episodic dlc doesn't work even if fans are heavily involved in determining the course of the story. Gamers like to be amazed by what developers has to offer them, not what gamers have to offer to themselves. Most gamers just want to sit back and see if the game is good or bad. The moment I heard this was an episode thing rather than a full fledged game, I was immediately turned off by the idea.
Meh sounds like Dyack can't even get a kickstarter project right
Dyack's name is poison. Such a shame because he was responsible for Blood Omen Legacy of Kain.
After getting so much free money to drag on projects that ended as turds (while simultaneously intentionally breaking copyrights against EPIC games), Dennis deserves to fail. He should hit rock bottom and then get a job where he isn't in charge. He needs to eat a few hundred humble pies before anyone trusts him again.
Dyack does sketchy things again? What a surprise
the crowd funded campaign will be merged with the kickstarter, but still left open if people wanted to donate that way. they also state on the site if they fail to meet the required amount they will refund peoples pledges (still to be seen but they do have it in writing on their site so..). all this is on thier website and also the people on the forums vote for how they want them to proceed, it's all quite hands on.
as for denis dyack he is only one part of their team he is not the one solely in charge.
So sad, I finally find something I want to support on kickstarter but it seems to have little chance of happening. Wish Nintendo had just made a deal to put this on Wii U and provided some funding instead of this massive kickstarter goal trying to be reached by Precursor.
I put money towards a Limited Edition pledge before the kickstarter. I then decided I wanted to do another level higher than what I wanted to pledge and they refunded my earlier pledge the same day, so they have done right so far by my opinion.
I find it funny though that people bitched about them not using kickstarter to begin with when that was not even an option they could use. Now they can and it is still a problem. If I end up losing the money that I pledged then that is on me. At least I get a chance to help fund something that I have always said I wanted another game about.
devs begging the gaming community to fund the production of games?
then forking out to buy the game?
to line THEIR pockets?
piss off.
since when were game devs a charity
why dont they go and beg a bank for the money? or nintendo? or another major publisher.
if none of those will fund the game, chances are its not worth it