Sad for you that the game industry also crow funded are often not your thing.
Surprise surprise that's why I don't play them, and if I do I take them for what there are and don't demand they change to suit my more core tastes. In fact I am content to carefully only back the handful of projects that clearly state they are not aimed at the broadest possible audience, hence all the frustration when I sink hundreds of pounds into a project aimed at 'sophisticated gamers who are not getting a lot of content' only to see them change their tune, and particularly after they receive all the funding they asked for.
Maybe you interpret thing some dev say a bit loosely, Like lot religious people do. But on topics that are more fuzzy then you think. If CR reference are Triple A games. He might see other games to easy to his tast. But doesn't mean that he is a gamer who is morel with extremely hard but regular hard.
Your example of BF4 is a good example. I like to play most games on easy why I want a nice story flow without to much replays. Or just want to shoot.Or no point where you get struck.
For me easy in BF4 is playing it on HARD. As that easy for me.
Because I did want fluid smooth story flow and not challenged.
This is very okay with me.
There are a lot of games who are very easy. So even the more mainstream gamers find some games to easy. It doesn't mean that CR is of this master race of gamers but some where in the dark to light gray. It a matter of point of reference.
And this...
"Games are a branch of software engineering with a doses of creativity into the mix. So what comparison is this. A near Triple A funded game I would set into the building off the Dubai tower."
Classic game developer hubris. Believe it or not there are many complex fields on this earth, many far more complex and challenging than game development, and yet manage to deliver on the promise.
You set SC comparison to sewing machine how ridiculous is that!
The constructors of the Dubai tower, to use your modest example, after receiving the funding they asked for did not end up delivering yet another giant shopping mall and a host of excuses about the complexities of construction and the importance of taking into account the needs of rich locals willing to throw money at the project.
again You set SC comparison to sewing machine how ridiculous is that! So instead to get into deep into nit picking about ridiculous comparisons.
Just stick to game production.
a much better example for you is CoD. Activision offer a huge funding's for the next COD. But this studio only took what think they need. Why, they stick to the formula the franchise and a 2 year deadline. And it a sequel routine job.
Much as I appreciate game developers for the job they do, many really do need to stop believing their own hype, or at least recognise the business decisions of the management who they report are often as unprincipled as those made in any other industry, actually more so since video game fans are so easy to take advantage of. Case in point, your next comment...
Well we can only hope for CR has his feet on the ground and not in the clouds. But as external observers in a still early fase into production. without how much is spend yet. A experience top producer keeps the visionary in check.
A game like Trespasser Dev said. something like this " maybe if we had a producer who keep us in check. Thing would went a lot smoother. "
"I would blame it on the other backers."
No. I can not lay the blame at the feet of backers, even the mainstream backers who jumped on the band wagon after it became a zeitgeist. As others have pointed out the development of SC is not a democratic one. The crowd sourcing extends only as far as the funding, not the vision. Frankly its clear to me for RSI we are just cash cows to be farmed in any case. The ironic fact is he could have easily stuck to the plan and carried the second wave of backers with him, so hot was the project and high was his stock, and banked the extra money for security and to make a better game along the lines of the original plan. Not only would this have been the eminently more sensible and honorable thing to do, no one at all would have had any grounds for complaint. The original plan was clearly the development of the porsche of space sims, and not the volkswagon of space shooters. There is no question responsibility for deciding to dive at the opportunity to go for a bigger, more lucrative but necessarily dumbed down tent pole production are his and his alone.
Well if masses are still coming in growing beyond 500.000 backers already.
Then its the people choice who keep him going reaching that 90m.
I think CR settle for low aim as crow funding as that common result. But knowing the games he made triple A stuff it is where he's comfortable with.
His project is getting extreme hights but with high profile also the critics grow. But you mistaken that the majority is against it. some are so loud that while many are much silence or wait for the end result.
At the end of the day at worst he has betrayed the original backers and at best he has embraced one of the classic egomanical self delusions - believing he can make something that keeps both crowds happy.
I don't think I know what he think but going for 5mil and getting ten fold is a game changer. And shift in target also promises aren't valid any more.
For your sadies. that the risk you take when investing in a project.
When I read that Borderline went cell shaded I didn't like there choice. But moved on and played it.
Having said all that, I'm prepared to wait just a little bit longer before selling my remaining stock to see if he's dead set on this course or not. But in the mean time please, I trust you'll understand when I no longer respond to the bogus excuses you keep presenting me with in defence of CR. Honestly, I've heard them all before, by now they are very old indeed, older even than the pointless fish tank in my hanger, and moreover not a single woolly minded one of these arguments has ever done anything other than try to confuse, deny, miss or pathetically excuse the sad and very straight forward facts of the matter.
Do I read doubt. There is a chance? While you more sound like a SC fail guaranty crusader. You still are backing it. What the word for this: Hypocrite.
Or do you just extremely worry to much.
you know I recently have Ed Beta . But still aren't in to SC funding.
I hope for the best for both games.
