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Cliffski's Blog - The kickstarter reality.
But this is not *the* new publishing model, far from it. RPS noted that the developers ‘don’t have a publisher breathing down their necks’. Really? Maybe they have 10,000 publishers now, impatient, possibly wanting contradictory stuff (almost definitely…in fact), and not restrained by the politeness of scheduled milestone meetings behind closed doors. I hope it goes well, but it could get messy.
Plus the developer is boxed into a corner, they know exactly what they have to do with that money. This is not always a good thing. I ship maybe half the games I start. Gratuitous Tank Battles was not the game I intended to make. I intended to make a life-sim game, then abandoned it to make an RTS, then it morphed into GTB.
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Feb 13, 2012, 12:43 |
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| Aside from Cliffski's rant (which kinda does come across as whining... again), I think the major takeaway from this scenario is that there is no reason why established industry luminaries need to saddle themselves with making kiddie junk like Spore or Epic Mickey. If Will Wright was to do something like this for a real Simcity sequel, I know thousands of gamers like me would pony up. Maybe devs like Garriot, Molyneux, Meier, et. al. could reclaim their past magic. |
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