"After its successful Kickstarter campaign last year, developer Enigami Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom got a helpful boost from publisher Focus Home Interactive, who has pledged to make sure the game releases within 2016.
Coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Linux, Shiness is an RPG set in “a distant land torn by conflict,” known as Mahera. Check back for further info and media."By Heath Hindman
The epic heroes. The beautiful landscape. Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom, an action RPG developed by Enigami and published by Focus Home Interactive, embodies the classic RPG feeling once again, and gives the players the experience of a lifetime.
Joanna Mueller writes: "Enigami was attempting to backpedal on their promises. Suddenly backers could only claim one digital console key, regardless of how many copies of the game they’d pledged toward. And this was only available to backers who’d pledged at an unspecified tier."
Sounds like they made a bunch of promises to keep raising money, pretty shady.
He is also tied with NewNormative both of those sites are owned by the same people. Look at their contributor lists.
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Situations like this is why I don't bother with Kickstarter. Say one thing, do another. Sounds like another company who had a game release Sept of 2014 who pulled a similar situation.
Never understood why people give money to someone with just promises...should be a rule in KS that a game or product has to be 30% complete before backing can start.
Also, the person asking to r money cannot ask fr more money until goal and promises are complete.
And how do they afford the development costs if it's already 30% complete?
The fact is, we shouldn't let the shortcomings a few well-publicized instances sour people on the idea of crowd funding.
I would agree with you but its not just a few...this happens more often than you think.
Video games and non-related video game product have made promises only to walk away and give us nothing.
Atleast send them to jail for not giving back the money.
It's a very sad situation and I can understand why people are upset. Mistakes happen.
The game is great.
I pledged to 3 games and all 3 games were completed and sent to me. Only game that really didn't live up to it's promises was Mighty #9. It was an average game, but still fun. I haven't backed anything else since.
I've pledged 2. H hour, which I pledged for a ps4 copy and have never received. Also pledged for vita copy of Bloodstained, so far that looks to be going OK.
EB: Above you can check out some b-roll style gameplay footage from my campaign playthrough of Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom, which is releasing next week for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One. It features the opening tutorial and other random gameplay segments that you’ll encounter within the first hour or two of the game.
I'm not writing the game off or anything, because it looks like it might be good, but most of those character designs are a little...cringe-worthy.