Kickstarter

Why haven't you backed any Kickstarters, Sup Forums?

They're the future of video game publishing!

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I have. The ones I backed have all delivered good games.

I backed Wasteland 2, Broken Age and Terminators 2 pinball. I was very happy with all three and don't understand the Broken Age hate.

>Why haven't you backed any Kickstarters, Sup Forums?
Implying I did not.
Wasteland 2
Grim Dawn
Shards Online
Project Gorgon
Ground Branch
Days of War
Deadwood
Crea

You can go ahead and start insulting me.

loool all those idiots got ripped off serves them right the game makers spent all their cash half assed making a game and then spent most on hookers and blow

I have never backed a game

>loool all those idiots got ripped off serves them right the game makers spent all their cash half assed making a game and then spent most on hookers and blow

Games I backed:

Broken Age (Just the digital game, was worth it for the documentation alone. Game is certainly no Monkey Island, but it wasn't bad either)

Timeshock! (Pretty high reward level, including signed copy and life size poster of the playfield. Development took forever, but the game looks awesome and is the best pinball simulation available)

Yooka-Laylee (Boxed Copy with Toybox+ and stuff)

La-Mulana 2 (Boxed Copy)

Shadow of the Externals (Unsuccessful)

So far, I'm quite happy with all of them

I have, and Pathologic was worth it for the updated translation alone.

*Eternals

But I backed system shock yesterday user

>post yfw when you've never backed a single kickstarter

I refuse to spend my money on literally nothing.

>I refuse to spend my money on literally nothing.
So was it a car accident that made you retarded or you were born that way?

takes too long to received a end product, and not interested enough in risk either. that is a concern for the kikes, not a goy.

But I have, I backed:-
Wakfu
Little Witch Academia
Divinity: OS

Only retards back shit done by entitled art degree Western hipsters and washed up has beens taking credit for the work of an entire studio.

but I have

I have, and so far I'm pretty satisfied of everything I've backed.

Not satisfied with KS itself as a company though, and I'm out from anything related to it until further notice.

Kickstarter is great. It lets other people pay for the development of a game I might like, then once it's out, I can read reviews to see if it's actually good, then I can get it and play it if it is.

There is literally no downside

um the downside is you dont get your name in the credits, a digital item, and a one on one webcam discussion with the devs.

fag

>Wasteland 2
>Grim Dawn

What?

What do you think of this one?
>inb4 shilling
It was posted on Devolver twitter.

F U G :DDD
kickstarter.com/projects/267535682/wake-the-dragon

I have backed several and never had any problem with them

Only backed Bloodstained and it looks like it's coming along nicely.

Isn't the reaction image clear enough?

Since Kickstarter is at this point just a "gamble about which games will actually get made/be good" website, what are some Kickstarters you really want to succeed?

Personally I think Prey For the Gods looks cool

Why pick two games from list, tho?

I regret Mighty Number 9

Because I only played those

>He paid 60 bucks for Mighty No° 9

The only one I regret is Shill Citizen because of what it has become.

kickstarter.com/projects/223137030/armored-coretm-rts-a-real-time-strategy-board-game

Who the fuck comes up with this shit?

Could only be more hipster if you had the Oatmeal card game on there.

>tfw youve NEVR contributed antthing to oickatarter and pnly buy the game post realease if its ajy good

>we'll probably have an AC board game before we have another good AC video game

>Backed Formula Fusion
>It's fucking awful
>Dev's don't seem to care about critisism levied against it
>Ships are still glued at a certain height
>They didn't realise so many people wanted to be able to pitch the ship up and down so they add it in
>It does nothing

An actual video game?

I thought about it, but I only happen upon the Oatmeal comics from time to time because I don't follow it. I throw money at C&H most of the time though.

Are you having a stroke?

Anyone who says "I want my money back" should fucking kill themselves
If you're retarded enough to put money into a lucky draw then dont fucking bitch about the results

Darkest Dungeon might be my favorite thing to ever come out of Kickstarter

>Lucky draw
>There are people so stupid and incapable of making an assessment that they view Kickstarter as essentially a lucky draw

Hussie did nothing wrong, he just got fucked over in every possible way all at once.

Are you joking or have you been living from youtube feeds?

Backed loads of Kickstarters.

It sucks for video games but it's good for traditional games or board games where the money is usually needed for mass-production rather than actual development.

What have I backed?

Ahem:

Pillars of Eternity(Inbefore ree, I got 149 hours out of it, easily my second or third favorite game of last year.)
Dreamfall Chapters(To be fair, he actually released all of it, I just didn't like it. That's not because the game was bad, I guess I just moved on from DF as a franchise or something.)
Cyberpunk Soundtracks(Was pretty enjoyable)
NF Magazine(Fully delivered, I heavily regret it though, going back to nintendo kiddy magazines was just not that fun)
Tales of Aletherion - Season One(I like to back animation projects, fuck off)
Yooka-Laylee (Jury's out, we'll see)
Pillars of Eternity: The Card Game(Multiple delays due to shipping from china to America by boat. Annoyed, but the game looks solid when it gets here, and they at least gave me a tracking number so I can watch it putt putt putt through the ocean)
Bard's Tale IV(Looking good)
Umbra(Immediately gave my copy away, didn't even want it desu, jsut wanted to support some cool developers)
Epic: The Card Game(It's magic without needing to buy a million boosters. I like it.)
Purgatoria(A tabletop RPG made by Sup Forums)

Honestly after this it's all just tabletop games and it's a bunch. I just backed Mutant Crawl classics senpai, it looks good.

What happened?

I only regret Shenmue 3 to a degree, got caught up in the hype and backed it the day after the reveal for the artbook tier, but I fucking love artbooks anyway so it could be cool.

>Wasteland 2
>Grim Dawn
>Asylum

Grim Dawn was fine, Wasteland 2 didn't really grip me. I still don't know what the fuck is going on with Asylum, every other month I get a tl;dr "update" from the lead dev.

Last game I backed is actually completed but won't be released because someone who contributed nothing to the game won a lawsuit and will get some percent of the profit of the sales of the game.
Since KS isn't technically sales, the devs can keep that money, but won't release the game because then they'd have to pay the other dirtbag.

Just a few quick questions: How many of you that back loads of stuff on Kickstarter work and earn your own money?

Those of you that have been burnt once (or multiple times), why do you continue to back projects? Is it the fact that the possibility of what could happen overcomes reality?

Shenmue 3 is a pipedream, I backed it for 60 bucks and I expect low quality things

Im just hopeing Yu proves me wrong, but he keeps randomly hiring prople according to the updates

I backed that Joan Cornelia animation thing to get the T-shirt.

And I backed Star Citizen with like 3 ships, Rear Admiral, M-50, and Khartu-al. I had my worries, but the 4 part ATV and their recent updates about patch 2.6/2.7 have put me very much at ease. Especially seeing all their work spaces and work actually being done. Not putting anymore in and wouldn't recommend donating unleaa you want to do the bare minimum to access alpha for whatever reason, since no more LTI ships.

>Just kickstarting games

ALL ABOARD THE MST3K TRAIN.

But seriously though I've backed a few things. Pixel Noir is looking good, as is Based Iga's Bloodstained.

I backed Shantae and Shenmue
Also Indivisible but that's indiegogo

I don't regret any decision Since those are all games made by reputable game developpers

What did they get instead of the promised game?

>Put $15 into Skullgirls
>Get the game at a discound, and all of it's DLC free beyond the 2nd Encore voiced elements on PC
>Put well over 90 hours into it enjoying my time

>Put $15 into Mighty Number 9
>Got the game at a discount, Ray & retro DLC's for free
>Only put 3 hours into the entire experience before it was done and I never touched it again.
At least there's dynatron porn coming out.

Homestuck died so fast and suddenly that I didn't even notice it dying and just forgot about it.

La-Mulana 2
Indivisible

but he is right
>"user, think, it's investment"

if it's investment I want to see the planning, meet the main dev, know which technology they use, what are their deadlines, a financial report of the use of the money, know which people are involved.

otherwise it's just gambling, nothing else, the guys can spend the whole budget on liquor and work on it 5 hours a week I'll never know

can't he release it for free?
also what game

Only think I kickstarted was divinity original sin

Hiveswap is the biggest scam ever scammed

Too bad no one knows about it and those Homestuck fags got cucked

Homosuck fans deserve it.

I wanna back whatever the shovel knight guys want to do next

It's a scam squared.

Andrew Hussie tricked a bunch of him fans into giving him millions of dollars based on a "trailer" that was literally just panels of his comic set to catchy music with no information about the game.
Then, Hussie hired The Odd Gentleman to make the game, and they stole half of the development money without making a game and forced him to either sign a NDA and get the other half back, or pay to go to court and lose everything.

Scammers scamming scammers scamming autists.

>the new actors
I feel empty

Really? Remember this guy? Anyone remember "Of Gods and Men" ? that last one was literally a genuine scam.

wew

>ouya
kek, forgot that ever happened

I prefer to pay for things that exist at the time of the purchase for accountability reasons

"Give me no-strings-attached money and I will PROBABLY make something you like" is a horrible pitch and is bound to end in disappointment. Although I imagine that crowdfunding backers are used to disappointment anyways

If you pay somebody with no concrete commitment to produce anything of real quality to do whatever the fuck they want with your donation, then you are objectively shit at decision-making, never mind money. There's a reason that losers who turn to crowdfunding (begging) don't get help from publishers, even if they were successful in the past.

who /driftstage/ here?

>muh eebil publishers
Turns out, if you don't keep retards on a tight leash, they won't get anything done.
Who knew?

It's more of an investment, if you invest correctly like Shovel Knight you end up with a good game
You invest in concept art by a dude who doesn't actually make the video games you get mighty number 5.6

Hyper Light Drifter is the only game I've ever backed and it was honestly the second biggest mistake.

Buying Cortex Command was my biggest mistake I've ever made.

The only vidya I have back on KS is Yooka-Laylee which is still looking good to me. Other than that I have only backed board games (all of which have been delivered, haven't played them all but I am pretty happy with the ones I have) and one album (which was good and I got a CD out of it).

I've only backed four so far. Mighty No. 9, Shovel Knight, Hyper Light Drifter, and Bloodstained. All but Bloodstained were at the basic tier to get the game, and so far Mn9's the only one that's disappointed me.

Devs he contracted ran off with the money to make King's Quest instead. He went to their offices to ask them how the game was coming along and they wouldn't even answer the door. He got some of the money back but the damage was done. New team seems competent enough but it feels like too little too late. His dad died in the same year too. And he did all of this while also trying to juggle writing the comic which went completely down the shitter. I wish he had just waited for the comic to be finished before he made the game. I feel bad for him and I don't at the same time.

>It's more of an investment, if you invest correctly like Shovel Knight you end up with a good game
>You invest in concept art by a dude who doesn't actually make the video games you get mighty number 5.6
This. Holy shit, how do people struggle to understand this so much?

how is it an investment? you invest for profits
kickstarter is basically a pre-order for a game that does not exist and might never exist
it's more like a donation than investment

>Cortex Command

Can you tell me the story to this one? I remember being somewhat interested in it several years ago. The dev is working on a successor now, right?

>tfw can't even crab bomb anymore

I also backed Star Citizen.

I only regret MN9 so far.

However the others have not released, so I won't know if I regret the rest of them until later.

Star Citizen looks great so far

>Cortex Command
What exactly is the deal with that? I've tried twice to get into it and I feel like it's just beyond my mortal enjoyment.

HLD is good though
As always, the less involved you are in the development of the game, the better.

The profit is a damn good vidya.
I got my investment from shovel knight in a game that got made with with my aid all be it, it probally would have been made without me but not all games get the praise of shovel knight and kickstarter can help some things see the light of day.
It's just about being smart with it.

>Bee and puppycat
>75$
Get the fuck out of here, you fat disguisting tumblrina

>all that flares
>all that missiles

Goddamn its tempting

Not much of a story.

The game was posted to Steam before Early Access/Greenlight was a thing. The developer never advertised that this game was still in major development. There were bugs everywhere, camera was a joke sometimes, controls were convoluted. It wasn't just me, almost half of the player base had the same problems as I did. I came back about a month ago to play it and it's still broken as before. I'll never play it again regardless if there are no bugs in it.

tl;dr it's absolute garbage.

it's the new call of duty

Any kickstarters currently ongoing that Sup Forums would recommend me to help fund?

And what is the return on the investment?

A videogame that might be good or shit that everyone, even people who did not invest, can enjoy?

Should I start a kickstarter for this game? I could use another programmer and an artist.

>how is it an investment? you invest for profits
So what, a house isn't an investment? You invest for a /benefit/, which can include utility.
>kickstarter is basically a pre-order for a game that does not exist and might never exist
>it's more like a donation than investment
Which is another way of saying, you're investing in the development of the game, hoping to get the return benefit of (reward), taking into account the risk of it not being made, or being shit, and losing your money (or a portion thereof if you would have otherwise bought it on sale or something)

>And what is the return on the investment?
>A videogame that might be good or shit that everyone, even people who did not invest, can enjoy?
...well, yeah. That's the whole point.
For a game that would otherwise not have been made, what's the problem? Your return is 'the game gets made at all', and everyone else being able to buy it is just a further consequence

bloodstained so far

Also, the game's been in development for 11 years and counting.

Like i said a damn good vidya, i played the hell out of shovel knight and got lot of time and fun out of it.
With the yooka laylee demo it seems like that might be the same thing,
But that's how investments work you invest right and get you good shit, you invest everything into nintendo because you're retarded and think nintendo owns pokemon go then you get fucked when everyone sells their shares.

>weebshit

No thanks

It's honestly one of those games that are only fun with friends at least for most people.
I used to have lot of fun playing it in co-op and once we got bored of vanilla, we got shit ton of mods.
Best part of the game for me was probably discovering that you could tap the jetpack button to fly forever and gain infinite amount of speed.