Op Ed

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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Beamer wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 07:43:
But does he actually think 10,000 adoring, slobbering fans are going to try to make demands that kickstarter doesn't even contractually allow them to, and that they have no real venue to make, anyway? Could that possibly be worse than a publisher that can say "if you don't do this we're shutting you down?"

Fans are always going to have demands, luckily, as you say, they have no contractual power.

In certain spheres of indie development, I think there's too much focus on listening to the fan. This is understandable because we went many years without any communication between fans and devs, but I think we need to move towards learning when to ignore the fans, because according to sturgeons law, 90% of their ideas will be terrible, and even the good ones will dilute the vision of the author.
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