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[Sep 20, 2012, 11:09 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Destructoid - Publishers accused of trying to exploit Kickstarter.
"We were actually contacted by some publishers over the last few months that wanted to use us to do a Kickstarter," he revealed on his team's own KS page. "I said to them 'So, you want us to do a Kickstarter for, using our name, we then get the Kickstarter money to make the game, you then publish the game, but we then don't get to keep the brand we make and we only get a portion of the profits.'

"They said, 'Yes'."

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Sep 20, 2012, 14:22

Ruffiana

Apart from the 'keeping the brand' part, what's the big deal? Kickstarting money won't publish, market, distribute, and do all of the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing to get a boxed game on the shelf of Walmarts and GameStops of the world. There's still unarguably a market for boxed games. There's a market, money to be made, and for all of the shitty things that publishers have done to the game industry, knowing how to make money with a complete game ready to go into a box and be sold is not one of the problems. Asking for a portion of the profits from those sales isn't unreasonable. It's still a huge investment of time and resources to publish a finished game. Demanding onwership of the IP to publish a game you haven't paid to develop is pretty greedy. That's an entrenched mindset from decades of an established business model where the publisher is fronting and advance so a game can be made in the first place. Stupidly short-sighted, greedy, slow to adapt...but not malicously evil. This comment was edited on Sep 20, 2012, 14:34.

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Comment [quote="Ruffiana"Sep 20, 2012, 14:22]Apart from the 'keeping the brand' part, what's the big deal? Kickstarting money won't publish, market, distribute, and do all of the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing to get a boxed game on the shelf of Walmarts and GameStops of the world. There's still i[unarguably]i a market for boxed games. There's a market, money to be made, and for all of the shitty things that publishers have done to the game industry, knowing how to make money with a complete game ready to go into a box and be sold is not one of the problems. Asking for a portion of the profits from those sales isn't unreasonable. It's still a huge investment of time and resources to publish a finished game. Demanding onwership of the IP to publish a game you haven't paid to develop is pretty greedy. That's an entrenched mindset from decades of an established business model where the publisher is fronting and advance so a game can be made in the first place. Stupidly short-sighted, greedy, slow to adapt...but not malicously evil. [/quote]

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