Kickstarters are a bit of a scam if you ask me. A company that's existed for 20 years shouldn't be scrounging for handouts to launch a product. It's just a way of getting gullible people to inject cash into the business without the shareholders losing any control. The people who win are those that own stock - several million pounds getting loaded on to the company balance sheet with no obligation to pay any of it back? Yes please. I'd do it for a small, new-start looking to build something innovative. Not an established video game business who can easily issue shares or bonds if they need to raise capital. They just took the p out of naive gamers.
Amazingly, there are some. Playing a game on release is an experience, being one of the first to play it and discuss with like-minded friends. We actually saw it on this very forum on release of X4: Foundations. The thread went on actively for two weeks at least, and still pings in my subscribed threads from time to time.
Lately, there is also the experience of taking part in drama surrounding a rocky release, sadly. X-Rebirth, Fallout 4 VR, Skyrim VR, Doom VFR.
Just curious... Why the arguments over someone else spending their money however they wish? Very odd![]()
Because you should always ask a financial advisor before spending your hard earned. While not "officially" a financial advisor, I can still help you in that endeavor for a small fee.![]()
I'd advise against motti's advice.
3 guineas please![]()
That's nonsense. They did a KS to gauge support for actually taking the game to market. If it had received a poor response, they could have mothballed ED with no face lost, which is far preferrable than spending loads of money to release a product which nobody then wants to buy.
Most KSs are scams - I've been stung by a fair few (usually hardware based), but FD didn't do it as a money making exercise, unlike some other games out there....
And I advise you that amigacooke's advice is correct.
One million dollars, please. (Hey, I only need one. )
Because it might affect others as well?Just curious... Why the arguments over someone else spending their money however they wish? Very odd![]()
Because you should always ask a financial advisor before spending your hard earned. While not "officially" a financial advisor, I can still help you in that endeavor for a small fee.![]()
And I advise you that amigacooke's advice is correct.
One million dollars, please. (Hey, I only need one. )
Because you should always ask a financial advisor before spending your hard earned. While not "officially" a financial advisor, I can still help you in that endeavor for a small fee.![]()
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I'm not sure I'd trust FD to deliver what they say they will. Sometimes their use of semantics has turned out to be better than their game content. The Codex for example is not actually what many of us thought it would be and I too miss the ice-terrain that was promised.
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NO! NO! NO! NO! AND NO!
Because I have a lifetime pass![]()
You are explaining the advantage of playing on day1, not the advantage of pre-ordering. You can play on the first day every bit as much as anyone else without pre-ordering.
I'm not sure Frontier made it entirely clear that all 25,681 of us could have just pledged a fiver as it was just a marketing exercise.
They did seem to keep the £1.5 that had been raised.
I'm not sure Frontier made it entirely clear that all 25,681 of us could have just pledged a fiver as it was just a marketing exercise. They did seem to keep the £1.5 that had been raised.